Did Joe Lhota And Republicans Poll To See If They Can Use De Blasio's Interracial Marriage Against Him?
The allegation that the Lhota campaign poll-tested a negative message against Bill de Blasio for being married to a black woman first showed up in a Christian Science Monitor article yesterday.The writer wrote that a GOP operative not affiliated with the campaign but privy to the campaign polling was claiming this was so.This GOP operative denied he told the CSM reporter anything of the sort, but
Sign The MORE Petition Calling For A Moratorium On APPR Teacher Evaluations
The MORE petition - in full:Moratorium on Teacher Evaluations We, the educators, parents and community members of New York City, call on State Education Commissioner King, the new Mayor of New York City, and the UFT leadership to implement a MORATORIUM ON THE NEW YORK CITY TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEM. This system disproportionately weights the use of high stakes test scores over qualitative assessme
Teacher Cries To Bill Thompson About School Officials
.@BillThompsonNYC listens to a teacher who tears up talking about problems with school officials. pic.twitter.com/chXlwjNZy7— Azi Paybarah (@Azi) September 5, 2013Quite frankly, I know teachers who get just as frustrated when the union functionaries come around to explain the wonders of APPR or why nothing can be done about all those "unsatisfactory ratings" in the building or why dissenting voice
Mulgrew AGAIN Defends Advance APPR Teacher Evaluation System In An Email
They must be feeling some pressure down at 52 Broadway this week, as teachers who haven't been following the ins-and-outs of the teacher evaluation system battles got their first detailed look at the Advance APPR system and learned just how insanely complex, convoluted and unworkable it is, because UFT President Michael Mulgrew has now sent out two emails defending the system.The first one was ent
Bloomberg's Endorsement Seen As "Kiss Of Death"
Yes, that phrase actually gets used in today's Times article on why not one candidate running for mayor has sought Bloomberg's endorsement - not even the Republicans.One GOP candidate took a poll with Republican voters and found that two-thirds had a negative view of Bloomberg.In the Democratic Primary, de Blasio has surged to the head of the pack running an anti-Bloomberg-themed campaign:It is a
9-4-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: What Happened To Christine Quinn's Support?Via Azi Paybarah, two trend lines from yesterday's Quinnipiac poll show what has happened to Quinn recently that her support has cratered:White voters and women voters were all that were keeping her anywhere near runoff territory.Now she seems to have lost both and she's bottoming out.It's ugly:Can't say I feel sorry for her - she r