Joel Klein

New York Activists Form National Coalition to Fight Big Ed-Reform Dollars

Parents, activists and educators who are against the so-called education-reform movement are forming a national coalition to combat what they perceive to be a corporate assault on education. They thought it'd be wise to organize their fight on a more national level -- especially since their oppone ... More >>

The Bleak Future for NYC Students

More evidence emerges that the Education Mayor flunked

Bloomberg Schools Flunk the Constitution

We're raising a generation that doesn't know its rights

When Rupert Murdoch Was My Boss

Top 10 Quotes About Cathie Black's Departure

It's been a pretty eventful 24 hours on the education beat in New York City. Given how unpopular Cathie Black was before she even started as Chancellor, there was far less glee at her ouster than we were expecting. Many of her critics may be experiencing schadenfreude privately, but they weren't e ... More >>

Racial Inequality in Bloomberg's Schools

The Education Emperor Wins, Kids Lose

Black gets promoted from within the mayor's own head

Cathie Black Opposed by the Same Old Handful of Loudmouth Gadflies

Cathie Black: hated by the same old gang​Have you noticed that it's the same five or six people protesting Cathie Black's appointment as Chancellor of Schools the past couple of weeks? No? That's probably because her opposition has been hyped to seem like it's made of far more people than it i ... More >>

Breaking: NYC Dept. of Education Chancellor Joel Klein Steps Down, Replaced by Cathie Black, Former Magazine Exec.

​At a press conference today, Joel Klein -- the chancellor of New York City's Department of Education announced that he is stepping down from his position, to be replaced by now-former Hearst chairperson Cathie Black. She is the second chancellor of New York City's Department of Education sinc ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Just Hired the "Most Important Living New Yorker"...Away From New Yorkers.

​Interesting retrospective on the resignation of Joel Klein, former NYC schools chancellor, who left his job in public service to go work as an executive vice president for News Corp. In New York magazine's recent "Who Runs New York?" issue, a flow chart of influential New Yorkers being asked ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg and Joel Klein Want More Charter Schools So Bad, They Went to Church

With the looming deadline to apply for federal Race to the Top education funds coming next week, Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein have been taking their call to increase the number of charter schools far and wide. This weekend, they took the word to church, reports Daily News writer ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's Proposed Budget Slashes Teachers, Yet Still Pays to Recruit New Ones

​Faisal Shahzad may have inadvertently saved the jobs of a 1,000 cops in Mayor Mike Bloomberg's budget proposal, but nothing apparently could be done to save the jobs of 6,400 city teachers...Not even letting go of the $5 million dollars budgeted for new teacher recruitment. Yes, that's right ... More >>

Education Mayor Bloomberg Called Out

NYC's head has a serious setback on his way to closing schools

Segregation 2010: Bloomberg's Schools

The mayor and his schools chancellor make their stand at the schoolhouse door

Bloomberg and Kelly's School Vigilantes Get Failing Grades in a New Lawsuit

Teachers Bring Suit Against Klein Over Rubber Rooms

Several schoolteachers are suing Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, claiming their confinement to "rubber rooms" -- holding facilities for teachers removed from duty, usually on disciplinary charges -- violates their rights. They claim the Chancellor has no authority to charge or hold them, and that ... More >>

The City's Bid to Save Cash Leaves New Teachers Out in the Cold

Barrett: Now Even the Times is Burnishing Bloomberg-Klein School Myths

​Since Mike Bloomberg and Joel Klein do have a real record to sell, why do they insist on embellishing it? And why does every newspaper in town, now even including the New York Times, lend itself to the Department of Exaggeration's (DOE) campaign to merge the renewal of mayoral control and the re- ... More >>

Mayoral School Control Deal Allegedly Happening; NYU Center Bloomberg Hates Gets Bumped

We suppose we should mention it since some people find it exciting, but the news that a "deal" is "in the works" for the state senate to renew mayoral control of the city's schools seems pretty weak tea. The parent training institute, arts advisory council, and safety committees sound more like gest ... More >>

Everyone Wants to Fire Joel Klein Except Bloomberg

Fresh off his audit of the department of education's graduation rate figures, which he found unconvincing, mayoral candidate Bill Thompson says school chancellor Joel Klein "should be fired; it's as simple as that." Hey, that's what mayoral candidate Tony Avella said, albeit more eloquently ("It wo ... More >>

Board of Ed Revives But, Packed with Shills, Will Do Nothing

We gotta admit, we thought it was a bluff. We assumed that when the Albany Coup senators let mayoral control of schools lapse at midnight, no one would step forward and say, "it is the time of the Judges!" But the Board of Education rose from the dead today and is meeting at the Tweed Courthouse to ... More >>

Bloomberg Threatens Army of 3 a.m. Callers to Renew Mayoral Control of Schools

While the Albany Coup are a good laugh for you and for us, Mayor Bloomberg has to worry about the fact that mayoral control expires tomorrow and the state senate has to reauthorize it. This weekend the Mayor underlined the urgency with a press conference, promising that the city would have to go to ... More >>

News' Juan Gonzalez: Sharpton Got a $500K Present

The odd-ball marriage of Al Sharpton and schools chancellor Joel Klein -- who have been teaming up to tout their version of education reforms since last summer-- resulted in a sweet $500,000 wedding gift for Sharpton's National Action Network, reports the Daily News' indefatigable Juan Gonzalez this ... More >>

Poll: Bloomberg is a Chilly Willy, But That's OK

Mike Bloomberg is cold, businesslike, and out of touch with the needs of everyday New Yorkers -- but what the heck, this is New York and no one's looking for a mayoral hug.A Quinnipiac poll out today reports that most New Yorkers find Bloomberg -- surprise! -- a distant billionaire by 55-30 percent. ... More >>

Bloomberg Maneuvers to Crown a Kennedy

Who's Caroline's daddy?

Federal Court Defendants Joel Klein & Ray Kelly

Our Education Mayor remains silent about police abuses of students in public schools

Barrett: Joel Klein Overstates Caroline Kennedy's Role

Wayne Barrett: Why Bloomie is Campaigning for Caroline Kennedy

Bloomberg Writes His Own Report Card

Thankfully, there's no term limit on the Constitution and its protection of students

Back to School With Ray Kelly's Bullies on Patrol

Another fall begins with the Police Commissioner's henchmen in control

Klein Time? "Group of Eight" Touts Chancellor for Mayor

NYC's Black Male Graduation Rates: The Lost Two-Thirds

New York ranks 54th of the 63 largest U.S. school districts for graduating black boys

Losing Track of Dropouts—and Successes—in New York City Schools

DOE, City Council and Unions all fail to keep tabs on when NYC schools fail - or succede.

President Bloomberg? Not This Bad Apple

Mayor Mike should get more heat for teaching kids to fear the police

Small Order

City leaders want kids out of large schools and into smaller ones. Now one Brooklyn high school is fighting the mandate to close its doors.

Third American Revolution

Chancellor Joel Klein's plan to turn students into active citizens for the Constitution

Learning Why We're Americans

Schools fail the future when they don't teach individual liberties in the Constitution

Testing Bloomberg and Klein

Test scores rising, but what of the different black and white diplomas and other lost kids?

A Free-Speech War

Columbia critic of Israel banned from a program for NYC teachers by Joel Klein

Bloomberg's Accountability?

Eva Moskowitz's prescription: giving kids a fighting chance well before the third grade

The Puppet Chancellor

Joel Klein claimed that the axed 'social promotion' dissenters resigned. This was a lie.

Letters

The Underside of Bloomberg's School Reform

How the Mayor's Top-Down Revolution Locks Out Communities

The Best of Bloomberg's School Reform

How the Mayor Is Resuscitating Our Sick System

Testing to Create Dropouts?

Playing the Numbers Game for Kids' Futures

For the Children—Klein Should Resign

Where Was the UFT? And the Principals’ Union?

Weingarten's War

The Teacher Boss Puts Bloomberg on the 'Bad Step'

Peace Nix

How the Schools Conflict Resolution Office Got Mugged

The High-Stakes Testing Trap

Rising Standards, Rising Dropouts

A Letter to Chancellor Joel Klein

What Is 'A Sound Basic Education'?