Remainders: What happened after Reason’s cameras cut off
- Geoff Decker captured the full exchange between Matt Damon and the Reason reporter. (GS YouTube)
- NewsCorp’s Wireless Generation is building software for the Gates Foundation. (Impatient Optimists)
- A profile of Patrick Sullivan, the PEP member who speaks out against mayoral policies. (Capital NY)
- This year, NBC is involving unions in putting together its “Education Nation” coverage. (Russo)
Bloomberg declares tenure is not needed in public schools
Less than two years after pledging that he did not want to end tenure, Mayor Bloomberg struck a different chord today.
“Do I think it’s needed at the public school level? No,” he said today.
The statement came days after Bloomberg’s most recent escalation in rhetoric against tenure protections. During his weekly radio address last week, he said tenure is a vestige of the McCarthy Era of the 1950s, when teachers were persecuted for their political views.
But until today he had not said outright that he opposed tenure’s existence for public school teachers. In fact, in
