tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post8933215970338635282..comments2024-03-24T11:39:28.574-04:00Comments on NYC Public School Parents: Joel Klein came to District 2 and told liesPatrick Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631038958645725010noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-90274088063504253942010-11-05T21:51:06.716-04:002010-11-05T21:51:06.716-04:00John Dewey High School in Brooklyn started today t...John Dewey High School in Brooklyn started today to have a morning protest every Friday. <br />This is the kind of thing we hope to see happening at all the high schools which are being <br />threatened with closure. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y3tXGAxCOs <br /><br /><br />Please forward to other interested parties.Noahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17331735135460612955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-8462553878664451772010-10-31T09:46:54.569-04:002010-10-31T09:46:54.569-04:00http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nyceducationnews/mes...http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nyceducationnews/message/14654Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-12826496773678871452010-10-31T09:44:58.954-04:002010-10-31T09:44:58.954-04:00If you scroll down, you will see substantiation of...If you scroll down, you will see substantiation of my claim that Klein is increasing the number of students admitted to Stuyvesant.<br /><br />http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nyceducationnews/message/14654Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-28590171569439855322010-10-31T07:10:13.288-04:002010-10-31T07:10:13.288-04:00If it's true that Stuyvesant has been ordered ...If it's true that Stuyvesant has been ordered to offer more seats, that's a problem. The school is already overcrowded. <br /><br />As chancellor, Klein has done his best to destroy what was working in NYC public schools. A cynic might believe that his method of narrowing the achievement gap is to lower the top.<br /><br />In our neighborhood (Forest Hills) school performance has dropped dramatically in the decade that he has been in charge. It's long past time to hold this man accountable for the destruction he has wrought. <br /><br />There are still many places in this city with incompetent teachers and administrators, but now he has ensured "equity" by going after well-performing schools and bringing them down.<br /><br />One would almost suspect another agenda here: the privatization of public education.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17367899237091169366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-62036180241768763782010-10-30T14:56:10.114-04:002010-10-30T14:56:10.114-04:00Re. adding extra seats, I would check the stats fo...Re. adding extra seats, I would check the stats for admissions in district 2 to see if they've increased. Stuyvesant High School, for example, has been ordered to increase the number of students it admits over the past few years, even though the school was already overcrowded.<br /><br />It may be the Klein is claiming he added new seats, when in fact he is simply overstuffing already existing seats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-35412685807800479662010-10-30T07:21:53.744-04:002010-10-30T07:21:53.744-04:00Technically, Klein is right about charter schools ...Technically, Klein is right about charter schools not being for-profit. Charter schools are non-profit corporations run by a board of trustee that can contract with a for-profit company to run their school. Many public schools contract with for-profit companies to provide services, such as food service, transportation, teacher training, security, etc. A management company takes it a step further to actually running the school. The whole idea of charter schools is performance-contracting: the charter is contract that says the school can do things its own way and in exchange it is expected to raise student achievement. Ironically, by banning for-profit management companies, the state has eliminated the very organizations that have the capital for private facilities, which would alleviate the co-location controversies.Gideonnoreply@blogger.com