Articles Posted in the Sound Off Category
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Sound Off | Do Public Employees Make Too Much?
Teachers’ and other public employees’ working rights continue to be assaulted across the country: Anti-Worker Bill Passes in Idaho (Reuters) In Michigan’s state capital Lansing, hundreds protest (BusinessWeek) And in Iowa, Florida, Wisconsin, and elsewere But,today, New York City Comptroller John C. Liu released a report, summarized here, that indicates that NYC public employees [...]
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Sound Off: Are City/Suburban Schools Getting Equal Share of Budget Cuts?
Originally posted on TimesUnion Blog An analysis by AQE found Cuomo’s proposed cuts in operating aid average $773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as “high-need” by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students. The 30 districts classified as low-need, with the fewest [...]
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Sound Off: What do you think of Bloomberg trying to pit the Firefighter’s and Policeman’s Unions against teachers with his lying bonus vs teacher layoffs statements?
Following his divide and conquer strategy that has worked successfully with district vs charter parents, Bloomberg decided to continue his proven method by attempting to pit firefighters and policeman against teachers by lying to the public stating they receive an annual Christmas bonus of $12,000 for nothing AND that money could go towards preventing teacher [...]
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Sound Off: Gotham Schools Bans Mustafa | What do you think about it?
There’s been a lot of debate going on over by Gotham Schools regarding censorship and the influence of corporate funders and sponsors. Today, Mustafa, a regular commentator to Gotham Schools was banned and is now sorely missed. What do you think about Mustafa being banned? Sound off your thoughts in our comments section below.
