Inspecting Eva Moskowitz
With admirable restraint, the head of the New York City Charter Center, James Merriman, pronounced the results “remarkable” and attributed the results to Success’ intensive instruction....A lot of schools, including many charter high-fliers, offer high-octane teaching. None come close to matching Success Academy’s results the last two years.... Robert Pondisio Poor James Merriman, I almost feel so
Memo From The RTC: The Road to “Godspell”
Nora Meyers, Kim Simek, Frank Caiati, Gabrielle Mangano, Jeff and Heather ArzsbergerPublished in The Wave, August 22, 2014.Memo From The RTC: The Road to “Godspell”By Norm Scott, with Frank CaiatiUnder the direction of master builder Tony Homsey, the set for the RTC production of Godspell, opening Sept. 12, is almost complete (with a lot of painting still to be done). Choreographer Gabrielle Mang
More Charter Scandals
FBI Tracks Charter SchoolsThere's been a flood of local news stories in recent months about FBI raids on charter schools all over the country.From Pittsburgh to Baton Rouge, from Hartford to Cincinnati to Albuquerque, FBI agents have been busting into schools, carting off documents, and making arrests leading to high-profile indictments."The troubled Hartford charter school operator FUSE was
Why Charter Schools Have High Teacher Turnover
Near the top of the turnover chart is the Success Academies system led by former Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz. With 22 schools and 10 new schools opening in August 2014, it is the city's largest charter chain. In Harlem Success Academies 1-4, the only schools for which the state posted turnover data, more than half of all teachers left the schools ahead of the 2013-14 school year. In one school, thr
The Indypendent: What's A Cop To Do?
Good cops, dedicated and skilled ones, learn how to look for signs of criminal behavior instead of profiling by race ...good policing requires judgment, being able to tell the difference between a black teenager in sneakers who’s running because he just snatched a purse and one who’s running because his mother said he had to be home for dinner by 6pm....a former Baltimore city cop and Maryland sta
8-21-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: George Schmidt on Karen Lewis for Mayor - and More; Randi Offers Karen a million bucks if she runsAFT President Randi Weingarten said she'd give $1 million to Chicago teachers union chief Karen Lewis if she ran against Mayor Rahm Emanuel....Chicago Sun-TimesThe cynic in me says, what better way to get rid of a potential rival? A million bucks will be a drop in the bucket against R