Latest News and Comment from Education

Saturday, January 14, 2012

NYC Public School Parents: Bloomberg's damaging education proposals to cost $350 million per year

NYC Public School Parents: Bloomberg's damaging education proposals to cost $350 million per year:

Bloomberg's damaging education proposals to cost $350 million per year


There's horrific news in today's Daily News: that NY State Education Commissioner King is likely to approve the mayor's proposal to fire half of all of teachers at 33 struggling schools:"That's a pretty aggressive teacher evaluation system,” the state insider said. “We believe the switch meets all the federal requirements.”

Firing a fixed quota of at least half of all teachers, regardless of their ability, is not a real teacher evaluation system; it's a meat cleaver approach. This proposal reveals Bloomberg's phony hypocrisy and any supporter who claims to care about the importance of "teacher quality."

Moreover, the city is supposedly intent on pushing through this plan so