Highlights of Mayoral candidate education debate sponsored by principals union
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Last night there was a lively education debate sponsored by the CSA, the principals union, with all the Democratic mayoral candidates and Tom Allon, who is running as a Republican. I was busily tweeting throughout.
Except for a rather tiresome exchange as to who had the best public school alma mater, it was an interesting discussion, well moderated by Liz Willen of Hechinger and Pedro Noguera of NYU. ( In case you’re interested, Liu went to Bronx Science; Allon attended Stuyvesant; Bill Thompson graduated from Midwood HS; and Bill De Blasio’s son attends Brooklyn Tech. Chris Quinn said she wasn’t “smart enough” to go to Bronx Sci or Stuy but actually she grew up on Long Island.)
Each of the candidates had his or her high points:
· Bill de Blasio got the biggest applause of the evening; when he said that come January, Eva Moskowitz of