Chalkbeat New York Carrie Melago The report fails to disclose that mayoral control was created when pro-charter billionaires quietly flooded Albany with millions in cash nypost.com/2009/08/17/gat…

The charter school PACs are spending millions today to keep mayoral control, proof that it pays off for billionaires:

Nathaniel Styer I wish us taxpayers didn’t have to pay for you to cherrypick highlights. NYC testified that we are not heard or seen by you.

Mayoral control also gave us vast expansion of charter schools that ignored the 1998 law requiring emphasis on at-risk students. Please explain 2850(2)(b)

Jen Jennings, PhD Old enough to remember when masters programs trained teachers to develop their own curriculum (and assessments) suited to their own classrooms, using educational best practices of individualization/differentiation. Then the privatizers realized how cheaply politicians are bought:

John C. Liu NYS Education Department Senator Shelley Mayer The obvious problem with both mayoral control + the system that preceded it is corruption through campaign payola. But the problem got many times worse after Citizens United + consolidation of wealth into fewer hands, all of whom deploy billions to take over control our schools:

UP IS DOWN: The “Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act” headed for passage in the NYS Legislature lets religious institutions bypass local zoning to build up to 80% UNAFFORDABLE housing, a sweet giveaway letting religious schools become luxury landlords: citylimits.org/2024/03/05/ame…

Join us tonight ET @wbai for #TalkoutofSchool where Carol Corbett Burris Network4PublicEd & education scholar 𝒥𝓊𝓁𝒾𝒶𝓃𝒱𝒶𝓈𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓏𝐻𝑒𝒾𝓁𝒾𝑔 will discuss the real record of charter schools, whether Dem Party has evolved on this issue & if so, why.

PRO-CHARTER BILLIONAIRES FOR ISRAEL? New dark money PAC touted as the AIPAC for state-level candidates in NYS is run by REBNY + charter school billionaire Dan Loeb, now funding Michael Benedetto, chair of the NYS Assembly education committee /1 nysfocus.com/2024/03/26/isr… Jonathan Soto

Daniel Buck Spelling + grammar take a backseat because they are not a focus of the state tests. We instead teach how to find evidence in a text, main idea + eliminate wrong answers to improve chances at guessing.

This is a direct by-product of standardized tests narrowing the curriculum.

.Sen. Stewart-Cousins says an extension of mayoral control of NYC schools will not be in the final budget

Too much emphasis is put on student performance measures in the current teacher evaluation system. NY needs to finally fix APPR so educators can focus on student engagement and improving their professional practice. @NYSUT

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