Public School Finance in the Bloomberg Years: A Detailed, Comprehensive Analysis for NYC and Elsewhere
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From FY 2002, the last NYC budget before Mike Bloomberg became Mayor, to FY 2014, the last budget of...
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Census Education Finance Data for FY 2014 (Compared with FY 2002)
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The Census Bureau’s annual education finance data was released for FY 2014 on Friday June 11. The data shows...
Census Bureau Education Finance Data FY 2013
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Imagine the following on a postcard sent to every taxpayer and public school employee in Syracuse, NY: “In FY...
Bloomberg: End automatic tenure for teachers. This as I found out a teacher at a former school of mine was a hooker
|I often drive on the Cross Bronx expressway, passing Elementary School P.S. 70, and reminisce about my school days there. I remember 3rd grade class, and playing on the roof-top gym surrounded by metal bars everywhere so no one would fall.
Surprised, but I guess really not shocked is the best way to describe when I picked up the NY Post this morning and saw a story about a current P.S. 70 teacher who was an alleged former prostitute and stripper. I've had a very successful career in journalism, and I am not attacking teachers, but I have to admit that I have always wondered how far I could have gone if I had received the same private school education as many other journalists.
Let the games begin
|It's official.
Political consultant Basil Smikle is off and running against Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins.
You might as well call this the race over choice. That is charter school choice.
Perkins does not support charters, but the problem that could cost Perkins his job is his position does not sit well with many parents in the district.
Smikle came out on the attack Thursday afternoon in Harlem:
