Politics

IBM Thinks It Can Run A Brooklyn School

8 March 2011

Come this September Paul Robeson High School in Crown Heights will be no more. Slated for closure by the Department of Education (DOE), it will be replaced by a new public high school underwritten by tech giant IBM and other funders. To be known as Pathways in Technology Early College High School, or “P-Tech,” this [...]

No Bike License Plates for Now

Assembly Member Michael DenDekker (D-Queens) withdrew two bills that would have required paid registration fees and license plates for all bicycle riders in New York State. Bills A5429 and A5430 were introduced on February 18th and would have required commercial cyclists to pay a $50 registration fee and obtain liability insurance and require all other [...]

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DOE Can Release Names in Teacher Data Reports

Today State Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Kern ruled that the Department of Education can publicly release rating reports on 12,000 of the city’s teachers. The United Federation of Teachers had fought to have the names of individual teachers redacted from the reports, which were requested under the Freedom of Information Law by five city news [...]

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Bloomie’s Poll Numbers Hit New Low

Despite pledges to send out “scout teams” with video cameras in all five boroughs and sanitation trucks equipped with GPS tracking devices in Brooklyn to face this Friday’s snow storm, it seems nothing that Mayor Bloomberg does is going to help his approval rating with New Yorkers this month. A recently released NY1-Marist Poll of [...]

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Panel on Life & Legacy of Mayor Koch

Tonight the Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center will host a panel discussion, “Ed Koch and the Remaking of New York,” to discuss the mayoralty and legacy of Ed Koch. It will feature author Jonathan Soffer of NYU Polytechnic, who recently released a new biography of Koch, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New [...]

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Bing May Get Primary Challenge

State Assembly Member Jonathan Bing (D-UES, E. Midtown) may face a primary challenge this fall from Gregg Lundahl, a high school government teacher from Manhattan’s East Side. The potential challenge is the result of Bing’s recent introduction of a bill that would give principals the power to choose–on the basis of “merit” instead of seniority–which [...]

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