More on the uncharacteristically friendly audience faced by Commissioner King in Brooklyn
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| credit Steven Mazie |
The Brooklyn stop on Commissioner King's "listening tour", as described here, featured one of the few friendly audiences he has faced, overwhelming supportive of the state's agenda of Common Core and high-stakes testing. Many parents were brought in early by StudentsFirstNY, given a special room inside Medgar Evers College and allowed to sign up for 44 of 45 speaking slots by 5:30 PM, even though NYSED had said the doors would not be open till 6 PM.
The attendees praised the state’s policies and the Common Core in similar terms, while apparently referring to a printed sheet of instructions, according to this Epoch Times article, while holding up nearly identical signs. The article also reveals that many of the teachers at the Brooklyn event were from the Uncommon chain of charters, which King himself used to run. Coincidence?
While King had accused critical audiences he faced elsewhere as having been manipulated by “special interests”, he said he saw no special interests at work in Brooklyn.
I wonder if the Uncommon teachers happened to mention that their schools, as well as Success charter chain, run by Eva