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With His Credibility Destroyed, Mike Bloomberg Again Selcts By Himself The Next NYC Chancellor - ParentAdvocates.org

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With His Credibility Destroyed, Mike Bloomberg Again Selcts By Himself The Next NYC Chancellor, Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott
Bloomberg is oblivious to public disdain and the vagaries of public opinion, and it is clear that no one can convince him of the value of a true democratic process. He picked Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott as the next Chancellor, and we should all be grateful that Cathie Black is gone and leave it at that. Raginghorseblog has posted an excellent article about all this, except for the reference to the UFT. If the UFT had not signed on to the Bloomberg agenda in 2002, none of the education disaster would have happened. Betsy Combier

Dennis Walcott, Mike Bloomberg
There Can Be No Change Under the Reign Of Bloomberg (Except In Ourselves )
April 15, 2011 , Raginghorse Blog
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In a sense, insofar as she so perfectly embodied the hubris, idiocy and recklessness of so much of the education reform campaign and particularly the educational vision of Mike