#Albany must renew mayoral control of NYC schools

#Albany must renew mayoral control of NYC schools

“Albany must renew mayoral control of NYC schools” New York’s Legislature must now move quickly to renew mayoral control of the city’s schools, and with minimal changes, if it hopes to preserve a system that’s been a marked improvement over its predecessors for the past 20 years. Albany’s failure this week to renew it in…

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#Bloomberg News axes 90 as
top editor blasts staff

#Bloomberg News axes 90 as top editor blasts staff

“#Bloomberg News axes 90 as top editor blasts staff” John Micklethwait, the top editor of Bloomberg News, blasted the rank and file for spotty performance over the past year as he unveiled cuts of approximately 90 people in the editorial and research departments. The cuts amount to just under 3 percent of the employees that…

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#All the ways pollsters and the media were wrong, wrong, wrong

#All the ways pollsters and the media were wrong, wrong, wrong

“#All the ways pollsters and the media were wrong, wrong, wrong” They blew it again. After muffing it spectacularly in 2016, when Hillary Clinton was supposed to cruise to easy victory over Donald Trump, pollsters and the media should be ashamed by how wrong they got this year’s election. Even after their cross-their-hearts-hope-to-die promises to…

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