Ed in the Apple: Blogging on the Intersection of Education and Politics

The Teachers Union (UFT) Election:  Making a Decision in Perilous Times

Over 100,000 teachers, paraprofessionals and other titles represented by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) will be receiving mail ballots in the triennial union elections. Union elections are frequently contentious and in the midst of COVID especially so. The UFT is the collective bargaining agent in New York City, in other words they negotiate the…

Civics Education: Can Teachers Pass the Baton and Save Democracy?

One of the wonders of New York City is the New York Historical Society, a museum, a library and the host of dozens of presentations by the nation’s leading historians, researchers and thought leaders. I attend the sessions that suit my tastes. Earlier in the week I listened to Richard Haas, the president of the…

The Race for Governor and Mayoral Control: The Intersection of Policy and Politics

(Snarling) “It’s all politics!” If you ask the average person to define “politics” you’ll probably hear, “underhanded,” “deceptive,” “dishonest” as synonyms. How many would respond “the democratic process by which you achieve policies?” Libraries are devoted to political science, from Plato to Aristotle to Machiavelli to Locke and Hobbes to our founding fathers.   Machiavellian is…

Cleaning Out the Augean Stables and Restocking the Shelves: Chancellor Brooks Lays Out His Agenda ,,,, (Sort Of)

On Wednesday Chancellor David Banks stepped up to the podium for his first substantive speech, the technology failed, Banks muttered, “This is what we get in a $38 billion budget.” … not the best symbolism The chancellor has been dropping hints, a thinner bureaucracy; his predecessor added a layer, executive superintendents, pushing the chancellor further…

Why is the Manhattan Institute Supporting Lowering High Graduation Measures in NYS?

The Manhattan Institute is a conservative think tank and the publisher of City Journal, The Institute serves as a leading voice of free-market ideas, shaping political culture …. Ideas that have changed the United States and its urban areas for the better—welfare reform, tort reform, proactive policing, and supply-side tax policies, among others—are the heart…

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