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Mulgrew v Mamdani and the Office of Collective Bargaining
The Constitution requires the “advice and consent” of the Senate (Article 2, section 2, clause 2), hearings and a vote to confirm probably hundreds of members of the executive branch, from cabinet members to ambassadors and on and on. The Mayor of New York, appoints, or reappoints about three hundred positions, without any approval, the…
“We Exist in a Marketplace of Favors,” The World of Realpolitik
We are a contentious species, we bicker, at times dissemble, and at the same time speak of ethics and morality. In classrooms, twenty-five hundred years later we regal Socrates as a great teacher, and forget he was condemned to death for teaching the youth of Athens to think critically (Socrates needed a union!). We just…
What Are the Most Serious Problems Confronting NYC Schools? Segregation? Too Many Small Schools? Chronic Absenteeism? Homelessness?
Every August City & State, an online news aggregator hosts an Education Summit, in the Holocaust Museum at the Battery, hundreds gather to engage each other and listen to education policy makers from the city and the state. Our new Chancellor Kamar Samuels was the keynote speaker, days after the reading scores kerfuffle, after increasing…
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Ed in the Apple: Blogging on the Intersection of Education and Politics Title 