NYC Public School Parents: Quinn's speech on education: high and low points

NYC Public School Parents: Quinn's speech on education: high and low points:

Quinn's speech on education: high and low points

by Leonie Haimson

Speaker Christine Quinn, thought to be thefrontrunner in the race to replace Mayor Bloomberg, gave a major speech on education yesterday at the New School. The full transcript is here; there’s also a Video, including a brief Q and A by Clara Hemphill of InsideSchools.   

I highly recommend people read the speech and watch the video of the entire event.

Some observations:  The speech was pretty comprehensive and its strengths were that she did express skepticism on many of the worst of Bloomberg policies: rampant school closings and obsessive testing, and she at least implied we don’t need any more charter schools, though she said she wouldn’t make them pay rent when they occupy space in school buildings.  (When she said that would mean the end of charter