Why is Cathie Black so unpopular, and why is the DOE scrambling for evidence of parent support?
Today's NY Post features a column about Cathie Black's abysmal approval ratings of only 17%; more on the Quinnipiac poll results, including the fact that only 28% of NYC public school parents now approve of Bloomberg, while 61% disapprove of him here.
As to Ms. Black, I think it’s interesting to analyze why her approval ratings are so low.
Nothing she has said or done is objectively worse than Joel Klein, and in a few cases, she seems to have pulled back from some of the most controversial choices that Klein would likely have insisted on: reversing the closing of PS 114, and the decision to put the KED charter in Tweed for just one year and then give it back to the community for their exploding number