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Friday, February 17, 2012

Schools Matter: Cuomo and Mulgrew Get New York in LIne with Other Lemmings

Schools Matter: Cuomo and Mulgrew Get New York in LIne with Other Lemmings:

Cuomo and Mulgrew Get New York in LIne with Other Lemmings

Last night the king of hackneyed superlatives, Arne Duncan, was on Jon Stewart's show demonstrating once again that there is an Orwellian platitude for every serious question, a punishing lie inside every gilded compliment, a cynical calculation for every saccharine formula.

And in the wee hours of this morning, New York teachers joined the death march of the profession by allowing their corrupt union boss, Mulgrew, to surrender to the corporate menace running education policy in America. The situation is pretty much summed up by this single voice of dissent registered by the New York Times, which