Monday, August 12, 2013

8-12-13 Perdido Street School

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Bad Filmmaker Thinks He Has Solutions For Public Schools
M. Night Shyamalan is one of the worst filmmakers in contemporary movie making.He had one successful film about 15 years ago and hasn't made a decent film since.Ha has, however, managed to win a "Worst Director" award in 2006 for Lady in the Water and a "Worst Screenplay" award in 2010 for The Last Airbender.Shyamalan's name is so tarnished these days that Sony didn't want to publicize his involve

NY Post: Andrew Cuomo Views Eliot Spitzer As The Enemy
From Fred Dicker:An increasingly nervous Gov. Cuomo is considering his options to prevent the “very real’’ possibility that disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will win the Sept. 10 Democratic primary for city comptroller — and turn into Cuomo’s worst political nightmare.With polls continuing to show the once- hooker-happy Spitzer holding a lead over uninspiring Manhattan Borough President Scott S

Mayor Bloomberg Gets Frothy Over Stop-And-Frisk Ruling
A judge said NYC shouldn't be like Pretoria in the 80's and placed limits on how the NYPD can carry out its stop-and-frisk policy.Bloomberg had a temper tantrum at his press conference over that ruling, as well as at the City Council for passing a law providing oversight for the NYPD:At a press conference littered with grisly imagery, Mayor Michael Bloomberg ripped apart a federal court ruling tod

The Anti-Weiner
With Anthony Weiner's favorability rating in the toilet, the media have gotten around to asking who is going to replace him as Quinn's opponent in the runoff.Bloomberg shill Bill Keller wants it to be Bill Thompson.Michael McLaughlin at Huffington Post thinks it could be Bill de Blasio. We are now a month away from Primary Day.The candidates have gone up with their ads, people are starting to pay

Bloomberg's "Legacy" In Tatters
In the past two weeks, Michael Bloomberg has seen his education legacy and his crime fighting legacy implode before his very eyes.On Wednesday, the state released test score data that exposes Bloomberg's test-based education reform program as a failure.Today a judge declared his stop-and-frisk policy unconstitutional.These are huge blows to Bloomberg's ego and Bloomberg's so-called legacy.Even Blo

Bloomberg's Stop-And-Frisk Policy Declared Unconstitutional
Excellent news:A Manhattan federal court judge today ruled against the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk practices, saying the city acted with “deliberate indifference” to these “unconstitutional” stops.“I find that the City is liable for violating plaintiffs’ Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights,” US District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin wrote.“The City acted with deliberate indifference towa
80% Of New Yorkers View Anthony Weiner Unfavorably
The numbers are not getting better for Anthony Weiner:About two-thirds of New York voters say the publicity circus sparked by Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer makes the Big Apple look like Clowntown, a new poll finds. “Although 16% of New Yorkers think the national attention from the Weiner and Spitzer candidacies is ‘no big deal’ and eight percent find it entertaining, 68% – including 62% of New
Newark Star Ledger: Chris Christie And Cory Booker Share Same Key Donors
The corporate education reformers are coming out for both Christie and Booker: Five dozen wealthy donors from Wall Street to Silicon Valley have placed their bets on both of New Jersey’s big political stars — Republican Gov. Chris Christie and Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker — this campaign season, a Star-Ledger review of state and federal records shows.When the governor and the mayor hit the


8-11-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Bronx Success Academy 2 Ranks 3rd In State On Test ScoresIn the middle of this Michael Goodwin propaganda piece on Eva Moskowitz in today's NY Post, we get this:The numbers tell the tale. Success Academy Bronx 2 was the top-performing nonselective school in the city and ranked third out of more than 3,500 schools across the state. Some 97 percent of its students passed math