Check Out NY Daily News Coverage of Public Education in NYC
As our local newspapers fade away (Ours in Cleveland prints every day but inexplicably delivers only on Sunday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.), many of us go to the New York Times on-line almost as if it is our own daily paper. But we are less equipped to unpack the local biases of another city’s newspaper. After all, we are not immersed in that city’s facts on the ground.
To learn about public education in New York City, it is important to check out another point of view in addition to the one presented in the NY Times. The New York Daily News is far more supportive of traditional public schools than the NY Times, that has pretty much endorsed former Mayor Bloomberg’s school reform policies featuring letter grades for schools, choice, charters, and public school closures. This is especially true since the NY Times removed Michael Winerip, who appreciates public schools and public school teachers, from the education beat.
This morning the New York Daily News features Carmen Farina’s first day on the job. The