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The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman
The Bloomberg "success" — 32% cut in per pupil funding, and did he say "racism"?
There’s a new blog in NYC education called Teaching and Politics, and this post on BloomKlein’s budget cuts has some strong stuff. Plus, he’s got figures to back it up. GEM is waiting for this blog author to come on board over here and lend us an experienced hand. August 24, 2009Real, uncensored effect of … Continue reading
Founding convention of the Coalition for Public Education
The Coalition for Public EducationParent, Educator and Student Power! Telephone (212) 561-7368 For Immediate Press Release: Contact: Jitu Weusi (718) 773-2252, (718) 857-1427Sam Anderson: (917) 671-8207 The Coalition for Public Education will host a Founding Day Convention on Saturday, August 29, 2009, at DC 37 Headquarters. DC 37 is located at 125 Barclay Street in … Continue reading
Reading material
There is so much to read over at the NYC Parents blog. Here’s the most recent posts: Correction needed for Times article on charter school construction: “The NY Times misreports yet another important education issue, this time as regards charter school construction . . .” “Effective Teacher” as Defined by the Obama Dept of Ed … Continue reading
Education politics: Bill Dixon’s radio commentary
Over at the Black Agenda Report, you can listen to Bruce Dixon talking about one of the sideshows in ed news these days. He’s referring to the multi-city tour that Duncan, Sharpton and Gingrich are embarking on this fall to spread the Obama administration’s vision of public education. Dixon’s vision veers from the press release … Continue reading
An important letter from a Parent Commission fighter
In the past few months, there was some talk at the street protests about the position the Parents Commission was taking in the battle over school governance. Were they caving? Were they supporting something less than all out No to Mayoral Control? So it’s really good to read over at Ednotes the position of one … Continue reading
More Bloomberg/Gates/Gingrich/Sharpton/Duncan connections:The "transparency" that isn’t
UPDATE I posted this earlier this morning, but to help put it all into perspective, read Leonie Haimson in the Huffington Post: “Arne Duncan Has Become a National Embarrassment, Part II.” From Carl Campanile’s exclusive in the NY Post today we learn that Bill Gates funded Learn-NY out of his own pocket. America’s richest man … Continue reading
Bill Thompson: "As a supporter of mayoral control … "
Norm Scott was responding to this press release by Comptroller Bill Thompson (Aug. 6th) THOMPSON STATEMENT ON SIGNING OF MAYORAL CONTROL LAW when he wrote the following: I feel putting energy into making these politicians pay is a diversion from the kind of work that needs to be done to build an active movement with … Continue reading
"This is a marathon, not a sprint."
Mayoral control is in, but we’re not settling for mayoral dictatorship. Legislators have to know that while big business pushes for warehousing students, fake accountability, juked stats, computer mania, and blaming swaths of educators, the people are disgusted. Make copies from the 2 pngs on the left (click on them) to form a double-sided letter … Continue reading
GEM connects with the Center for Immigrant Families
In more than one meeting this week, GEM connected with members of CIF, which advocates for an under-served group of New York school children. The Center describes itself as an “inter-generational and collectively-run organization of low-income immigrant women of color and community members” whose mission it is to focus on “the root causes” of what … Continue reading
Disparate bills signed into law?
UPDATE:I’ve spoken about this with some government people today and it looks as if it was a question of strategy. The Dems placed the governance bill on the Senate floor before doing the amendments. With no amendments attached, it passed. Paterson has the right to sign it into law because without the amendments, it matched … Continue reading
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