De Blasio Uses Ed Deformer-Tied Consulting Group For Transition Team
That story that Dana Rubenstein broke at Capital NY about Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio using a Bloomberg-funded consultant group suggested by Rahm Emanuel to run his transition team in secret just gets worse and worse:Civic Consulting Alliance role in Chicago schl closings & charter expansion; now working w/de Blasio transition team http://t.co/jOzzb5IIWt— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) Decembe
Jerry Brown Really Gets What Education Is All About
These are truly amazing statements from a 21st century politician:MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown blasted the notion of government-imposed standards for public schools, saying he opposed efforts from Washington and Sacramento to dictate education policy.Using "data on a national or state level I think misses the point — that learning is very individual, very personal," Brown sai
De Blasio Has Private Consulting Group Partly Funded By Bloomberg Running His Transition Team
This is just another example of why Bill de Blasio needs to be watched very, very carefully by his "progressive" base (from an excellent piece at Capital NY by Dana Rubenstein):Bill de Blasio has two transition teams.There's the public one, announced in late November. It's a diverse, 60-person assortment of nonprofit leaders, political types, educators, rabbis, Cynthia Nixon. More than h
It's Official: NYSED & Regents Plan No Major Changes To Their Reform Agenda
For those of you paying close attention to the Gospel of the Common Core Tour in which SED Commissioner King and Regents Chancellor Tisch went around the state trying to drum up support for their reform agenda after King had a public meltdown in Poughkeepsie when some parents dared to challenge him over CCSS, you won't be surprised by this news:There will be no major changes to the SED/Regents age
12-16-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Wash Post & Politicker: Carmen Farina Likely To Be Named ChancellorFrom Politicker:According to The Washington Post, Bill de Blasio is reportedly “likely” to name Carmen Farina, a former adviser and deputy schools chancellor, to be the schools chancellor in his incoming administration–possibly on an interim basis. A source following the process relayed similar informatio