Wednesday, February 2, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: Another New Low in Bloomberg's Education Record: NYC Shut Out of Intel STS Finals!

NYC Public School Parents: Another New Low in Bloomberg's Education Record: NYC Shut Out of Intel STS Finals!

Another New Low in Bloomberg's Education Record: NYC Shut Out of Intel STS Finals!


Non-stop community discord. Administrative cheating scandals. Knowingly inflated claims of educational improvement. Falsified and artificially inflated graduation rates. Wasteful spending and financial fraud. School children being used as guinea pigs in ungrounded educational experimentation. Closed-door selection of a blatantly unqualified cocktail-party friend as schools chancellor. The virtual sale of public education to wealthy private interests.


Seems like those reasons would be more than enough for a citizenry to rise up and reclaim control of its public school system from a haughty, emotionally disconnected mayor. In any suburban community in the NYC metropolitan area, most certainly so, but not apparently in the city itself, where citizens are