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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

1-7-14 Ed Notes Online

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Farina Salary Plus Pension Still Less than Charter Operators Eva Moskowitz and Deborah Kenny
Above headline is something you won't see in NY Post. Eva we all know about. More on Kennyhttp://garyrubinstein.teachforus.org/2012/06/12/it-takes-a-village/From Capital Pro City HallDe Blasio: Fariña salary 'absolutely appropriate'In response to questions over new schools chancellor Carmen Fariña's salary--a combination of her D.O.E. salary and her pension--de Blasio said Monday that the arrangem

Alan Singer, Mixed Feelings on Fariña, de Blasio
.... as far as I can see, Carmen Fariña has closer ties to the top 2% income bracket than the other 98% of the population and has always been willing to play political games... It remains unclear to me what Fariña has to offer the working class and poor Black and Latino students who have been left behind in the Bloomberg years....Alan Springer, HufPoI've been presenting a variety of views on Farin


1-6-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Advice for de Blasio: ASAP - Make Patrick Sullivan Your First PEP Appointment...here is a chance for Patrick Sullivan to bring his considerable talents in service of NYC parents, students and teachers by working with the majority at long last. What a shame to deny Patrick this opportunity. ... EdNotesOnlineScott Stringer also deserves a lot of thanks for sticking by Patrick and le