Zephyr Teachout Says She Has 25,000+ Ballot Signatures To Take On Cuomo In Dem Primary
From Buffalo News:ALBANY – A Fordham law professor seeking to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary says she has obtained 25,100 signatures as of today in her bid to get on the Sept. 9 ballot – nearly double the minimum amount needed.Zephyr Teachout said an army of volunteers and paid canvassers have been working the state the past month gathering signatures from Democrats at public
Great News - New Walcott Health Data Coming!
Earlier this week, former NYCDOE chancellor Dennis Walcott released the results of his latest physical in the Daily News - an event that I covered in a post called Dennis Walcott Needs To Just Go The ---- Away!Here's a bit of Walcott's piece:My annual physical checkup — I just got the results — yielded the following comparisons to last year’s findings: Weight down from 152 to 148 lbs.; HDL (“good
Quinnipiac Poll: Obama Worst President Since WWII
Heckuva job, Barry;A new Quinnipiac poll finds President Obama is the worst president since World War II.Key findings: 33% of American voters say Obama is the worst while another 28% pick George W. BushCongratulations, dude - you've beaten out George W., ht eman who brought us the Katrina response and the Iraq war mess, as worst president since WWII.That's a heckuva an accomplishment.
Michael Rebell On The Irony Of Campbell Brown
From State of Politics:Michael Rebell, a veteran education advocate, expressed doubt during an interview on CapTon last night that an effort to duplicate the results of a California lawsuit that overturned teacher tenure laws in that state will be equally successful here in New York.... Rebell was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which successfully maintained t
De Blasio Signs Bill Requiring Charter Schools To Report Data
From Daily Politics: Mayor de Blasio signed a bill Tuesday to require the city to publish reports detailing the demographics and academic records of all charter schools co-located with traditional public schools. Officials will have to spell out the number of kids who get free lunch, proportion of kids learning English and special education students, racial breakdown, and test scores at the school
7-1-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: RIP: Frank CashenFrom the Daily News:Frank Cashen, a one-time Baltimore sportswriter-turned-baseball man who presided over championship Oriole teams in the ’60s and ’70s and then, as general manager of the Mets, was the architect of their 1986 world championship team with a series of inspired trades for Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Ron Darling and Bobby Ojeda, among others,