NYC Parents Union Files Suit Against City, State Officials Over Tenure/Seniority Rules
From the NY Times:An education advocacy group on Thursday threw down the first challenge to New York’s teacher tenure laws in the wake of a landmark court decision in California last month finding such laws there unconstitutional.A lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court on Staten Island argues that the tenure laws violate the State Constitution’s guarantee of a “sound basic education” by making it d
Common Core Proponents Get Nixonian In Their Retaliation Tactics
Jay Greene:The entire Common Core enterprise has been characterized by shocking political naivete and over-reach. Despite investing a fortune in political operatives and holding weekly conference calls “directed by Stefanie Sanford, who was in charge of policy and advocacy at the Gates Foundation,” the folks pushing Common Core did not anticipate that the Unions would betray them and oppose the i
But Isn't The College/Career Readiness Metric All About Test Prep, Chancellor?
Eliza Shapiro at Capital NY got an interview with Carmen Farina in which the NYCDOE chancellor gives more details on her plans to improve the school system.Farina says she plans to focus on the 2nd, 7th and 10th grades as benchmarks for how children are progressing academically, socially and emotionally - how she plans to evaluate social and emotional development is beyond me, though I suspect it
How Does Eva Moskowitz Not Make The Daily News' "50 Most Powerful Women In NYC" List?
The list is here.Why isn't Eva Moskowitz on it?Hillary Clinton, Kristen Gillibrand, and Chirlane McCray are on it. Carmen Farina is on it.Emma Wolfe, de Blasio's chief aide, is on it.Kathyrn Wilde is on it.I get those names.A bunch of women who run Fortune 500 companies are on the list.I get those.And then there are women listed that make you scratch your head. Reshma Saujani, perennial loser for
7-2-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Michael Rebell On The Irony Of Campbell BrownFrom 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