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The NY Times' article on mayoral challenger Comptroller Bill Thompon's campaign suggests that it's not the shipshape operation that the Bloomberg campaign runs. (Of course, Bloomberg is throwing tens of millions into his effort.) Amid the different examples, it's noted Thompson's political director Tweeted, "Mommy, can I stay home from school today?" and the policy director Facebooked, "Why is it that I continue to do this work?" (the policy director later quit; he tells the Times, "to suggest that such a generic gripe speaks to some deeper issue is simply silly").
Times Notices Thompson Campaign Aides' Complaints
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Crushing story. Dumb tweet.
in b4 felixthecat2 anti-bloomberg statement.
So Bloomberg spends $$$ on his campaign and runs a smooth operation. Running NYC isn't a small operation. I'd rather have someone who can run a large operation (Bloomberg LLP) than someone who can't even run a small campaign.
felixthecat, your turn....
There's a small army of political consultants Bloomberg can hire with his money for a smooth campaign. Anyone who steps out of line will be fired and replaced immediately.
When you depend on volunteers and contributions, things cannot always go that easily. Is anyone really surprised by this?
small campaign?? it is a citywide office campaign and Bloomberg is spending over $15,000 a hour. The Board of Ed has spend billions of dollars and yet children still fail the national tests. only 34 percent were considered proficient, up from 30 percent in 2007. Fourth-grade students actually performed worse than in 2007.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/education/15scores.html
BAM! there it is. i was getting worried there.
but number one, it's the dept. of ed these days, not the board.
aaaaand number two, your article is talking about new york state students, not NYC students.
number three, the state and federal tests are not exactly perfect assessment tools to begin with (as said in your article. did you read it?)
and four, the achievement gap is a national issue anyway, not just a city issue. many would argue that the bloomberg administration has done tons of amazing things to close the gap, and many use NYC's example as a model for success.
educate yourself. might want to start with learning how to read.
(2)HELLO, NYC IS PART OF NYS and the results including NYC students who take the state tests.
(3) Merryl H. Tisch, the chairwoman of the state’s Board of Regents, who added that she considered the national exam the “gold standard” that did a better job of measuring overall student achievement.
(4) The GAP has widen. Bloomberg spend lots of money but the results are worse than ever. In state exams, 80 percent of eighth graders met learning standards in math this year, a jump from 59 percent two years ago. But judged by federal standards, only 34 percent were considered proficient, up from 30 percent in 2007. Fourth-grade students actually performed worse than in 2007.
YES PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF ON THE FACT WHICH YOU POSTED NONE OF HERE.
bloomberg's education stats are the worse.
what's the regents diploma grad rate?
ask colleges on how NYC students are not making it in their basic English classes and need remedial help.
it's quite common.
what are bloomberg's "education stats"? do you even know? do you have proof that they're really "the worse"?
people on gothamist have no idea what they're talking about. i don't know why i even bother.
so don't bother. hotcup.
his education stats are what really should be questioned and they will be in the next debate. at least, that's what one participant stated.
do you have a child in the NYC public school system and were you a student of the NYC public schools??
do you know what it takes to receive a Regents diploma?
how the requirements changed since the time I received one?
HELLO, his education stats are based on the state tests which have been "dumb" down. You should know them if you are praising him. Turn off the TV and do some independent research. Mr. Klein said that the city has no choice other than to use the state exam to reward and penalize schools, because it is the only test that measures all city students. But perhaps the most embarrassing aspect of the latest federal results for New York education officials was that they showed little or no improvement during two years in which the state was claiming huge jumps in student achievement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/education/15scores.html?_r=1
Michael (excuse me, "Mike") Bloomberg has made a big deal of how test scores for NYC schoolchildren have risen to seemingly astronomical heights. A closer examination, of course, reveals that while city tests -- the ones he and his puppet, Joel Klein, control -- seem to show significant gains, scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests show virtually no change at all over the past several years.
It would seem that when Michael Bloomberg writes the tests, kids show progress, but when someone else writes the tests the result is far different. This doesn't even take into account the fact that teachers are now wasting valuable class time giving practice tests; in theory, test scores should improve across the board if those practice tests are any good.
The anomaly to date has been state tests, given by the Board of Regents. Scores on these tests have risen statewide, and especially so in NYC. Michael Bloomberg doesn't control these tests, so he could claim that they are proof that his and Klein's methods work.
Until now.
The Daily News has an article essentially stating that in order to pass the sixth grade English test you don't even need to know English -- you can pass it just by guessing.
My guess is that this is the result of the disastrous and disastrously misnamed "No Child Left Behind Act," under which states are required to show progress, as defined by state-run tests. It turns out that, just like the tests Bloomberg & Klein are creating, the state tests are being ridiculously dumbed down and/or scored so that a claim of "progress" can be made when no real progress is in sight.
Clearly, there need to be some changes at the Board of Regents. They decided to cave in to the rotten Bush administration plan, and have failed our children.
But there also needs to be a major change to the NYC Dept. of Education, for they have not only failed our children, but continue to do so -- then lie about that failure
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/08/12/2009-08-12_standardized_tests_being_passed_just_by_guessing.html