Just as he was walking out the door Joel Klein, "the most important person living in New York City,"according to Rupert Murdoch, received another piece of bad news to add to his rapidly tarnishing image as the great education game changer in America.
It came at the same time that Michele Rhee; Joel Klein's favorite protégé was receiving her urban innovator award from the Manhattan Institute. It appears that New York's community colleges have experienced a spike in remediation classes for their incoming freshman during Klein's tenure. But it's Michael Bloomberg, the self-anointed "Education Mayor" who will have to live with it for the next three years.
Never missing an opportunity to obfuscate the truth, the New York Post ran an editorial condemning the now discredited New York State tests for the dismal results! They made these assertions without ascribing any responsibility to Klein's performance as chancellor, nor