De Blasio: No Chancellor Pick Yet
And so, if you're interested to see which direction de Blasio takes the schools system in, the wait goes on:Nearly three weeks after his election, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has yet to decide who will run the city’s public schools. Asked for a status update today during a rare public appearance, Mr. de Blasio offered reporters eager for any tidbits about his transition efforts few hints. “I will s
It's Official: NYSED To Change Name To Gates Foundation
With the news that Gates Foundation employees, paid for by Gates Foundation grants and/or cash from corporate entities, are acting in official capacity at the NY State Education Department to develop, implement and enforce policy, Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch announced today that she is just going to dispense with the sham and rename the NY State Education Department the "Gates Foundation:
Tisch, King, Gates Foundation Should Be Investigated By Moreland Commission
With the news that Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch has hired private employees from the Gates Foundations and other education reform groups to privatize the New York State Department of Education where they develop policy, implement those policies and just generally order the state employees around to do their bidding, we can see why neither she nor Commissioner King will allow any significant cha
Cuomo's Education Reform Agenda Exposed
Tim Farley wrote a letter to Governor Cuomo, part of which made it to the Times Union.In it, Farley shows just how much of the NY State reform agenda is Cuomo's agenda.He notes how Cuomo has been trying to distance himself from the state reform agenda in recent days, as public outrage over the reforms has grown, then writes: This seems different from two years ago, when he wrote Board of Regents
Governor Cuomo Must Be Called To Account For The Corruption At SED, Board Of Regents
The bombshell report in the Times-Union that private employees, paid for by the Gates Foundation and other corporate funds, are running NYSED, implementing policy and ordering around the state employees to do their bidding, has already led me to call for Regents Chancellor Tisch and NYSED Commissioner King to be forced from power.Tisch supplied the first $1 million in grant money to hire the priva
11-24-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School Blog Finally On The TwitterHere - realitybasededucator@perdidostschool Still holding out on the Facebook though.Screw Zuckerberg.by reality-based edu... / 17min skip // saveNew York Only State STILL Committed To InBloom Data ProgramThe Associated Press covers the inBloom mess in New York State:NEW YORK (AP) — After months of debate about the risks of