Did Mulgrew Sign On to Recent NYC Race to the Top Application?
NYC applied for a district RTTT grant, as revealed in EdWeek. Did UFT sign onto this and if so, what does it contain? The statewide RTTT grant is supposed to contain funds for the data dashboards or “EngageNY portals” to be populated with data fromthe inBloom cloud.Given that the Newark Teachers Union recently scuttled the RTTT application (Newark TU Rejects RTTT as Randi/Del Grosso Contrac) and t
Citizens of the World Charter To Use Dead Souls To Bolster Enrollment in Effort to Stay Open
With the school threatened with closing due to low enrollment (as the so-called charter demand is once more exposed), Citizens of the World supporter Eric Grannis (the husband of Evil Moskowitz) is scouting local cemeteries for recruits.State Ed Commissioner John King approved of the move. "The dead should not be excluded from the higher order skills gained from the Common Core."The SUNY
10-14-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Carol Smashes KingThe idea that a Commissioner would accuse parents and teacher of being a "special interest" is outrageous. That is not what leaders do... Carol Burris, NY State Principal of the Year, at The Answer Sheet, WAPO The speakers from the audience at this forum were to a person better-informed, more coherent and independent-minded than anyone I've heard from i