Last night's Gossip Girl mentioned our former governor, Eliot Spitzer. The blonde mom who's getting married asked that her wedding's seating chart keep her daughter far away from "Mr. Spitzer."
The weird cameo gets at something parents and teachers have told me: Sex scandals and schoolchildren are an awkward match--especially when both the former and current governor are parents of city schoolchildren.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Rigging the Regents at Bayard Rustin?
Regents-rigging at Rustin, the Chelsea public high school, is indeed today's word from Yoav Gonen at the Post, who says not only is the school being investigated for score-rigging--it still managed to get an F.
(For the record, the last time I talked to Bayard Rustin students, they were expressing awe for a school in Baghdad--that's Baghdad, Iraq--which they told me seemed more orderly than Rustin.)
Other Headlines, or Looking Fearfully Ahead to 2010:
(For the record, the last time I talked to Bayard Rustin students, they were expressing awe for a school in Baghdad--that's Baghdad, Iraq--which they told me seemed more orderly than Rustin.)
Other Headlines, or Looking Fearfully Ahead to 2010:
- Why is the state keeping pace with its Campaign for Fiscal Equity promise ($5.5 billion increase to schools over four years) while the city is cutting? Our Albany man Jacob Gershman explains that, when it comes to revenue-prognosticating, there is a city-state "pessimism gap." But don't count the next two years of the promise before they hatch. (Or next year, for that matter.) Governor Paterson's Negative Nancy quote: "We have to plan for the worst and stop kidding ourselves."
- Another former governor, Jeb Bush (Mayor Bloomberg's bosom schoolreform-buddy) is on the op/ed page at The St. Petersburg Times begging Floridians to support vouchers in the upcoming November ballot referendum.
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