Integration, Zero Tolerance, and "No Excuses" in Charter Schools Need To Be Examined More Closely
Dana Golstein says: "I’ve written extensively about the underappreciated social and academic benefits of integrated student bodies, so I’m thrilled to see influential charter school advocates embracing the cause. That said, there are some troubling questions about whether the most politically popular charter school model — the “No Excuses” model popularized by KIPP and embraced by Moskowitz’s Success Charter Network — is palatable to middle-class and affluent parents." From Betsy Combier: Even Eva Moskowitz' husband Eric Grannis agrees.
Dana Golstein says: "I’ve written extensively about the underappreciated social and academic benefits of integrated student bodies, so I’m thrilled to see influential charter school advocates embracing the cause. That said, there are some troubling questions about whether the most politically popular charter school model — the “No Excuses” model popularized by KIPP and embraced by Moskowitz’s Success Charter Network — is palatable to middle-class and affluent parents." From Betsy Combier: Even Eva Moskowitz' husband Eric Grannis agrees.
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From Editor Betsy Combier:
Eva Moskowitz infuriates me. The backstory is this:
In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I was elected PTA President of a middle school on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Booker T. Washington MS 54. I wrote a report on the racial segregation and theft of funds by the almost all-white honors program parents whose children were in the Delta Program, who were assisted by District 3 DOE Parent Engagement person D.J. Shephard (See Booker T. Washington Middle School 54, Grievance Brings Retaliation and the followup story posted 10/21/2003 and 10/28/2003). White parents Jenny Smith, Sue Schneider, Amy Frawley, Lauren Coleman-Lochner (whose daughter attended Stuyvesant High School with my daughter) all attacked me for my advocacy. Their actions are fully documented in a book I am writing on so-called 'parent leaders' of New York City.
I remember the day in 2001 that Hilary Clinton, Charles Rangel, members of the NY City Council - Eva Moskowitz - and several other "prominent" politicians did a walk through the school. My old friend NBC commentator Gabe Pressman wa
Eva Moskowitz infuriates me. The backstory is this:
In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I was elected PTA President of a middle school on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Booker T. Washington MS 54. I wrote a report on the racial segregation and theft of funds by the almost all-white honors program parents whose children were in the Delta Program, who were assisted by District 3 DOE Parent Engagement person D.J. Shephard (See Booker T. Washington Middle School 54, Grievance Brings Retaliation and the followup story posted 10/21/2003 and 10/28/2003). White parents Jenny Smith, Sue Schneider, Amy Frawley, Lauren Coleman-Lochner (whose daughter attended Stuyvesant High School with my daughter) all attacked me for my advocacy. Their actions are fully documented in a book I am writing on so-called 'parent leaders' of New York City.
I remember the day in 2001 that Hilary Clinton, Charles Rangel, members of the NY City Council - Eva Moskowitz - and several other "prominent" politicians did a walk through the school. My old friend NBC commentator Gabe Pressman wa
Judicial Corruption | Posted 6/5/2011 at 10:03 PM
Michael K. Loucks was arguably the nation’s most influential prosecutor of health care fraud....But a year and a half ago, Mr. Loucks, a Republican, left the United States attorney’s office in Boston after he was passed over for the top post and President Obama appointed a Democrat. Instead, Mr. Loucks joined Skadden, Arps last July, and has startled former allies by emerging in recent months as zealous a corporate defender as he was a prosecutor, complete with proposals seeking more lenient treatment for the medical companies he once vilified.