Dennis M. Walcott
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💧 Losing the schools: Special interests aim at control
In the heat of a New York City election season, the public schools are front and center — as they should be. But൩ many of the education proposals I’m hearing...
W☂alcott: In wrong hands, schools could backslide
I recently found myself absorbed in “The Ungovernable City,” Vincent Cannato’s extraordinary a🗹ccount of New York in the Lindsay years. He paints a vivid picture of a school system spiraling out... 𒐪
𝔍🌼 Pushing NYC’s kids into the cold
One week ago today, the school bus drivers and matrons of Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union went on strike against the private compan💧ies that employ them — disrupting...
Race to the bottom
Last week, after months of negotiations, the teachers union refused to agree to a meaningful system for evaluating teachers in 33 strugglingꦚ city schools. As a result, the state suspended...
Closing bad schools
The United Federation of Teachers, the NAACP and other advocacy groups and elected officials announced yesterday that they intend to sue New Yo🌄rk City over its plan to close 19...