NYSUT Issues Some Endorsements
From the Legislative Gazette: New York State United Teachers' Board of Directors is backing the statewide re-election bids of state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.The NYSUT board also issued early endorsements for state Sens. Tim Kennedy, D-Buffalo, and Toby Stavisky, D-Queens, along with Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, D-Kingston, and Jason Zove, a 26-year-old Commac
Education Reformers Should Be Brought Up On Child Abuse Charges
Nothing infuriates me more than seeing how the corporate education reform agenda has changed pre-k and kindergarten for children.Gone are the days when children were given the opportunity to learn through play, and experimentation - all of that has been replaced with hours and hours of "academic" skills and drills work and Common Core learning.I've covered this issue before in a piece e
6-1-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Cuomo Gets 58% Of The Vote At Working Families Convention, But Booed And Jeered At Every TurnFirst, there should be no surprise that the Working Families Party endorsed the "Charter School Lobbyist," one Andrew M. Cuomo, for governor.WFP receives an awful lot of funding from the unions and the union heads had made it perfectly clear in the past few weeks that Andre