Inside the rubber room.
Weighing in on mayoral control.
An argument for surveillance cameras in schools.
The switch to wood bats has meant less offense.
Pension changes for Teamsters at UPS.
Sol Stern likes No Child Left Behind, doesn’t like Jonathan Kozol.
Condoleezza Rice is visiting a public school in Harlem with Rep. Charles Rangel.
Meet Cassandra Lee, who plays for the Stuyvesant HS JV football team.
And what do Rachael Ray, Anna Wintour and Randi Weingarten have in common?
7 Comments:
1 jd2718
· Oct 1, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Too many links to the Post for my taste. There’s a reason so few of us read it.
2 R. Skibins
· Oct 1, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Mayoral control has brought us systematic harassment, age discrimination, a curriculum with a dubious track record, a sweetheart deal mathematics program which has failed nationwide, a leadership academy which encourages teacher abuse, loss of seniority rights, loss of grievance rights, extended days and extended years. All of this with no true student improvement. It is time to end mayoral control and institute a policy wherein only those with an education background od at least 20 years may lead the school system.
3 Peter Goodman
· Oct 2, 2007 at 11:59 am
Is it the governance system, the mayor or the chancellor? we did negotiate the richest contracts that we ever negotiated … would you oppose mayoral control if the mayor was more union/teacher/parent friendly? the prior system was mayoral control in drag, the mayor controlled the system from behind the scences and avoided responsibility … can we design a system that is more responsive and more accountable? Shouln’t the mayor be directly responsible for schools?
As mayoral sunset appraoches this will become a fascinating debate.
The UFT has formed a Task Force on Governance and will be holding hearing in the near future ..hope all you guys will show up and express opinions …
4 Steve Perez
· Oct 2, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Reading them so you don’t have to. What else can I say? The Post had most of the day’s coverage.
Today’s news stories draw from a wider range of papers.
To pick one of the links to the Post, I do find it interesting to see how Kozol and his new book are attracting a growing amount of attention in the NCLB debate.
5 jd2718
· Oct 2, 2007 at 8:57 pm
It’s an agenda-driven political publication. Since promoting the Post hurts Edwize and UFT members, there should be some equal or greater good done by including the link.
And this really should hold for each individual link. Edwize is under no obligation to provide the NY Post with unlimited links, just because they write about education.
Jonathan
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· Oct 4, 2007 at 4:41 pm
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