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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Praises Andrew Cuomo For Championing Charter Schools
With progressives, public school parents and teachers looking to ditch him this election season and vote for a candidate who doesn't want to destroy public schools, this is probably not the kind of praise Governor Andrew Cuomo is happy about:Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor praised Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the House on Friday, citing the governor's intervention on behalf of the cit


NY Post Calls UFT Contract "Satanic"
I know, I know - you think I'm engaging in hyperbole.But I'm not.A piece by Jenny Sedlis of StudentsFirstNY, written in reaction to some bravado remarks Mulgrew made Wednesday at the Delegates Assembly, is entitled: "The Satanic Details".The remarks Sedlis is "outraged" about were these:Union boss Mike Mulgrew went to his delegates on Wednesday and ’fessed up to his goal: reven


NY Times: Cuomo Could Be Vulnerable On Moreland Tampering Charges
When Cuomo created the Moreland Commission, he claimed it would be an investigative panel independent from his office:Last July, Mr. Cuomo said it would be “an independent commission that is free to investigate whatever they believe needs to be investigated on the merits.” The next day, he promised that its members would be “totally independent.” He also financed a television commercial describing


5-8-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Student Suspended For Opting Out Of Assessment TestMore negative news for the testing regime: An Alabama teen says she was suspended from school after she refused to take a local assessment test, contrary to an earlier report from WAAY-TV that the test was aligned with the state's Common Core curriculum. Alyssa McKinney, an eighth-grade student at Whitesburg Middle School in