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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Bloomberg runs the NY schools like a business? « Fred Klonsky

Bloomberg runs the NY schools like a business? « Fred Klonsky:

Bloomberg runs the NY schools like a business?

Did the business mayor really forget to bill the federal government for special education reimbursements?

No surprise that I’m not one of those who advocate running schools like a business. But Michael Bloomberg is.And claims he does.

So was it just a mistake that the New York public schools failed to bill the federal government for tens of millions of dollars in special education reimbursements?

State Health Department data from 2006 to 2010 show that education-related claims by the city were 60 percent lower last year than they were five years ago. And virtually all of the $302 million in Medicaid reimbursements the city did