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Friday, July 30, 2010
Klein's confidential email blasting the Times
In an email received by accident today, and sent me by a friendly source, Joel Klein blasts the NY Times coverage of the test score scandal this way: “NYT is outrageous. “Interesting how he says the Times article is “outrageous.” I thought today’s article was relatively mild myself. Or perhaps he meant yesterday’spiece?
In any case, Klein then adds: “There will be pushback (in addition to today’s DN edit) ahead but the oppos are trying to move their agenda with this.”
You bet we are! When the entire Bloom/Klein agenda has been revealed to be a failure, we’d be fools not to point that out.
The Daily News editorial that he is referring to is even more ridiculous than ever. These guys have lost all sense of reality. Entitled Way to Go, Kids! it still maintains the fiction, with a straight face, that the progress under Bloom/Klein has been terrific, while ignoring how their house of cards has completely fallen apart.
The email is addressed to Whitney Tilson is a charter school/ hedgefund privateer, founder of the pro-charter group Democrats for Education Reform, and writes one of the silliest blogs on the planet (amusingly lampooned by Billionaires for Educational Reform).
Here is their entire exchange: