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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: March 2015
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Monday, March 30, 2015. Before you buy the argument that the flap over Indiana's "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" is just about bad timing, read this. Identical to other such laws. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. The Cost of Charters. Saturday, March 21, 2015. Utterly believable and terribly depressing. An excellent recap of the buying of ed policy in NYS. Thursday, March 19, 2015. Many of the participants wore red t-shirts reading “Respect Public Education: It Works.” Signs read “Educa...She went on to say ...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: July 2015
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. It's not every failed candidate for governor who winds up on a school board. Carl Paladino, whose supporters like to call him the next mayor of Buffalo, is just one of nine on the dysfunctional Buffalo School Board, but he for sure gets the most press. With Trump-like sensitivity, he likes to refer to the African-American women on the board as "the sisterhood,". And he's been vocal in wanting to hold off. Seventy percent of the city's schools are segregated. A complete reversal o...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: February 2015
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Friday, February 27, 2015. I once sat in a classroom in Brooklyn as students listened to Walkmen (yeah, that's how long ago this was), tossed balls of paper out the windows, and wandered into the hallways and back. The whole time, the hapless teacher, who had invited me in, presented what I had thought was a foolproof lesson on Proper Nouns. He started by saying, "For example, I. Is a proper noun, because it starts with a capital letter.". It's clear that when you start with students who come from povert...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: WTF, Buffalo?
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. It's not every failed candidate for governor who winds up on a school board. Carl Paladino, whose supporters like to call him the next mayor of Buffalo, is just one of nine on the dysfunctional Buffalo School Board, but he for sure gets the most press. With Trump-like sensitivity, he likes to refer to the African-American women on the board as "the sisterhood,". And he's been vocal in wanting to hold off. Seventy percent of the city's schools are segregated. A complete reversal o...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: November 2014
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Irrational, Arbitrary or Capricious". In 1993, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity began a thirteen-year march toward a fair and equitable school funding formula. The march for fairness culminated in a lawsuit which wended its way through the NYS court system a la Bleak House,. The state now has twenty days in which to appeal the ruling or go to trial. Rebell expects the state to delay the case as long as possible. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Flash from the Past. For Cornell...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: June 2015
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Friday, June 26, 2015. Win Some, Lose Some. Here's what the Big Ugly NYS session-ending craziness looks like for schools. 1) No tax credit/deduction for private school tuition or scholarship "investment." 2) No raise in the cap on charter schools except in NYC. Since we're not near the cap yet upstate (we have 130 unused charters. Well, it sure wasn't pretty. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Very pleased to see our assemblywoman standing up for what makes sense. Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Monday, June 15, 2015.
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: December 2014
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Thursday, December 18, 2014. We'd already been shocked by Obama's opening of Cuban relations and Sony's closing of The Interview,. The IJ today points out Dryden's role in the decision. Monday, December 8, 2014. As the rest of the country rails over police excesses or UVA frat rape, Michigan has stealthily been passing some legislation that would be remarkable even in some red states. I wrote about the denial of funding to public schools. Now their House has passed a religious freedom measure. Senate fli...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: Still Fighting the Same Old Fight: Reauthorizing the ESEA
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Saturday, July 18, 2015. Still Fighting the Same Old Fight: Reauthorizing the ESEA. And for the first two decades of the ESEA, we saw progress in shrinking the achievement gap. Yet by moving away from federal oversight, the ECAA opens us up again to civil rights violations, and that's where the Leadership Conference gets up in arms. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A FEW LOCAL BLOGS/SITES. Alliance for International Women's Rights. Beer, Chocolate, Waffles. Five Month Pub Crawl. My Blog About Me.
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: May 2015
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015. It's a job that one has to be somewhat crazy to want. It's a political job. It's a job that forces you to hold hands with people who want each other's scalps. It's a very, very hard job. Richard Mills held the job for 14 years, which is something of a miracle in retrospect. The men who followed him held it for two and three years, respectively. She seems to have done splendidly in the eighth largest public school system in the nation (206,000 students! A lack of transparency? Welco...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: January 2015
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Friday, January 30, 2015. What's Wrong with NYS. Thanks to Simon for unearthing this outstanding synopsis. There's nothing wrong with NYS that a major restructuring, redistricting, and headrolling can't cure. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Not Cathy Nolan, god knows. (2) Maybe Tom DiNapoli, whom Silver set on the Comptroller's throne and who doesn't seem to have many friends in the executive branch. (3) Fake Sheldon Silver. Often a fun read. Who else? Maybe they have some ideas at The Albany Project. Oh, and...
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