Christine Quinn And The Legal Drop-Out Age
From Daily Politics:Kids would be legally barred from dropping out of high school until they turn 18 under a proposal announced Sunday by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.The mayoral hopeful is pushing to raise the legal drop out age to 18 from the current minimum of 17. “As a government, we give students permission to drop out of school at 17. When they’re children, we give them the permissio
Why Is The Daily News Going Light On Sheriff Andy Cuomo?
Following the news that Governor Andrew Cuomo received $400,000 in campaign donations direct into his account or to a Democratic Party account that his campaign could tap for ad money from a real estate developer and his affiliates in return for $35 million in tax breaks, the Daily News is kinda sorta calling for an investigation into Cuomo:The commission investigating Albany’s outrageous tax give
Can Spitzer Buy His Way Into The Comptroller's Office?
The NY Post reports that Eliot Spitzer has spent more than 10 times what Scott Stringer has spent in the comptroller's race:It looks like Eliot Spitzer will be a financial “steamroller” this time around. Spitzer, who’s self-funding his campaign, has put in $3.7 million since declaring his candidacy for comptroller on July 7.What’s more, the former love gov spent $2.6 million on the race for comptr
Don't Worry, We'll Fix The Low Test Scores With More Test Prep!
Buried in this New York Daily News story about how the "achievement gap" between white and Asian students and black and Latino students widened with the new Common Core tests and how schools they had more high needs students did worse on the tests than schools with fewer high needs students is this doozy:Despite launching several reforms to close the achievement gap, like Mayor Bloomberg’s Young M
Bronx Success Academy 2 Ranks 3rd In State On Test Scores
In the middle of this Michael Goodwin propaganda piece on Eva Moskowitz in today's NY Post, we get this:The numbers tell the tale. Success Academy Bronx 2 was the top-performing nonselective school in the city and ranked third out of more than 3,500 schools across the state. Some 97 percent of its students passed math and 77 percent passed English, despite a poverty rate of 85 percent. The school
Perdido Street School 8-10-13
Perdido Street School: TODAYAdd The SLO's And The City Tests To Next Year's Battery Of State TestsA parent made the following comment on the Newsday article about the Opt Out movement:My son gets almost 90's on every one of his "real" tests. He doesn't need to sit for 420 minutes of standardized testing in April, nor countless dozens of other hours for SLOs, benchmarks, field test questions and wh