APPR Teacher Evaluation Open Thread
The NYCDOE is supposed to send out final evaluation ratings for educators sometimes between 4 PM and 12 AM.Anybody gets theirs yet?If so, thoughts?If not yet, thoughts anyway?
Why You Should Support Tim Wu Over Kathy Hochul For Lieutenant Governor
Zephyr Teachout's running mate, Columbia University law professor Tim Wu, has a decent shot to beat Governor Cuomo's running mate, Kathy Hochul, for the lieutenant governor slot.The Cuomo people want you to think Wu isn't a very serious person, that you should vote Hochul because she is very serious.Here's Wu's rebuttal to that:Wu also responded to an attack from former governor (and lieutenant go
Governor Cuomo Not A Very Popular Guy On Social Media
.@mahoneyw examined about 1,200 Twitter messages expressing position on gov's race; only 12 - 1% - said something in support of @NYGovCuomo.— Liz Benjamin (@CTLizB) September 2, 2014Think about that for a minute - 1% of the 1,200 Twitter messages examined expressing a position on the governor's race were supportive of Governor Cuomo.What does that say about our governor?
Why Isn't The Press Covering The Moreland Investigation Any Longer?
Thomas Kaplan reports many people around the state are taking the primary season to publicize their unhappiness with Governor Cuomo:He has been snubbed by unions representing teachers and state workers. Editorial boards are skewering him. Political rivals are lobbing attacks from his left and his right.A year ago, it looked as though Labor Day would mark the start of Andrew M. Cuomo’s smooth glide
Let's Be Careful Out There
When Mayor Bloomberg was running the NYC school system, his attitude toward teachers was easy to read - he despised them, thought little of teachers as people and even less of teaching as a profession and wanted as many fired as possible.Every year around March we'd start the budget layoff season in which Bloomberg would threaten thousands of teacher layoffs.Every year those layoffs would be avert
9-1-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Politico: Obama's Teacher Evaluation Reform Agenda In "Disarray"It's a mess out there:The idea seems simple enough: Identify the best teachers and reward them. Pinpoint the worst and fire them. That’s been a linchpin of the Obama administration’s education agenda from the start. But now the administration’s initiative is in disarray, with states scaling back, slowi