Bloomberg--Change You Can Fudge with Data.
Here are some of Mayor Mike's Education Accomplishments:
- Kept class sizes from growing much larger, despite massive cash infusions from the CFE lawsuit.
- Brought pride to the parents of even the worst students by dumbing down tests to the point that an amoeba could pass them.
- Used those tests to promote more students than ever despite an end to social promotion.
- Raised teacher salaries to the point where they are a mere 40% less than some suburbs.
- Ensured that few teachers would earn those salaries by increasing the rubber room and ATR pools.
- Increased graduation rates through innovative programs such as "seat time" and just not counting a whole lot of kids who don't return to school.
- Spent 80 million on a data collection system that virtually no teacher actually uses other than the nightly log on to prove he/she uses it.
- Spent another 200 million to close schools and pay teachers to be permanent subs.
- His chancellor, Joel Klein, imposed a hiring freeze until those subs are placed, after implying that these subs are lazy and incompetent.
- Created many charter schools by allowing them, in a Blob like fashion, to eat up space that could be used to alleviate overcrowding in regular public schools.
- Did away with wasteful and time consuming nuisances such as parental input and teacher involvement.
- Eva Moscowitz.
- Ditto Joel Klein.
