What if the NYT printed the Pentagon Papers in 1980?
Monday’s NY Times printed a great expose on the ruinous Bloomberg and Klein testing scam.
Too bad they decided to put a reporter on it now.
It’s like putting Woodward and Bernstein on the Watergate break-in five years too late. Or printing the Pentagon Papers in 1980. Five years after the end of the Vietnam War.
What is troubling now is that in response to the criticisms of the way Bloomberg and Klein used inflated test scores to justify using inflated test scores to measure eveything from kids to teachers and schools, they are now making it more difficult for critics to pursue the data.
Leonie Haimson in NY Public School Parent:
So in future, it will be impossible for another reporter like the intrepid Einhorn to