#De Blasio degrades school standards

#De Blasio degrades school standards

“#De Blasio degrades school standards” It’s remarkable enough that a leader sitting in America’s financial capital would deliver such a faithful update of Karl Marx’s disastrous dictum, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” But to do so as a preamble to announcing the removal of selection criteria in middle-school…

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#How to keep NYC from going bankrupt

#How to keep NYC from going bankrupt

“#How to keep NYC from going bankrupt” With the city’s tax base decimated by the pandemic and a high-income-earner exodus, will Mayor Bill de Blasio tighten the fiscal belt? The dire need for it is laid out in a new Manhattan Institute study. In it, New York City government vet Eric Kober looks at the…

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#Stop Bill de Blasio’s rancid bus deal

#Stop Bill de Blasio’s rancid bus deal

“#Stop Bill de Blasio’s rancid bus deal” Members of the city Panel for Educational Policy have a clear duty to vote down City Hall’s rancid deal to buy out the bus company Reliant Transportation at Monday evening’s meeting — and not just because it’s likely to wind up saddling the Department of Education with Reliant’s…

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#NY leaders driving parents insane with school-closing moves

#NY leaders driving parents insane with school-closing moves

“#NY leaders driving parents insane with school-closing moves” Bad enough parents must play Red Light, Green Light on kids’ in-person learning; worse, the rules of the game are unclear, ever-changing and set sometimes by Mayor de Blasio, sometimes by Gov. ­Cuomo — two officials who are rarely on the same page. Families are now again wondering: Are their…

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