Five years ago, New York City adopted a new funding formula, with great fanfare.
It was called, optimistically, “fair student funding.”
However, the New York Daily News released the results of its investigation and discovered that the new schools opened by the Bloomberg administration get full funding, but the struggling schools that the administration wants to close get budget cuts.
This is NOT fair funding. This is a conscious effort to cripple the schools that are already on the disabled list and to destroy them by underfunding them.
The fact that these schools enroll disproportionate numbers of high-needs students underlines the cruelty of this policy.
Expect to see a press release soon on the “success” of the mayor’s new schools.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Unbelievable!!!! KC
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Unacceptable as well!!!
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Doesn’t Bloomberg equate success by the measuring the profit margin? Only charter schools make money–for the investors, certainly not the faculty. See, underfunding struggling public schools does yield profits for almost fully funded “turnaround” charter schools.
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Why isn’t this on every news broadcast and every front page of every newspaper in NY?
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Because he owns the press.
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I’m shocked that voters have not thrown Bloomberg out of office by now. After the tyranny he tried to impose by regulating the SIZE of a fountain drink someone can buy, that should have been the nail in the coffin.
I will just say this, if this is his goal, and it sure seems like it, why not fight back? Why not go out there and make these schools the best academically based schools in the city?? Get rid of that Everyday Math and bring in Singapore Math. Go to the Core Knowledge site and take the free scope and sequence and incorporate the Core Knowledge curriculum in the schools. Make sure discipline is a TOP priority and not ignored.
Stop rolling over and accepting defeat!
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When one candidates spends $105 million and the other spend $7 million, it matters.
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I commend this reporter, Rachel Monahan, for doing her job. If reporters everywhere would investigate the issues properly, the assault on education could not continue.
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This is so very frustrating. My principal had to excess 4 teachers (2 sp ed) and we are holding on by a thread.
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This is an old story.
In high school I was sucker punched during class change. I nonviolently restrained the coward until school staff could take charge of him. Bloomberg/edubully style, I was automatically charged with bearing the full consequences of “starting a fight in school.” If not for my mother [a teacher and parent] confronting an assistant principal with facts and logic, I would have been suspended. Of course, I would have been the only one punished: my attacker didn’t suffer any consequences at all.
Parents and teachers [and teaching staff] are being sucker punched. They need to get informed, get organized, and defend themselves. These vicious attacks won’t stop until people pluck up the courage to confront those who are engaged in this egregious behavior.
I am not saying it is easy or risk-free. And forget about worrying about whether you will be labeled “militant” or “aggressive” or “radical.” The labeling is part of the bullying. The edubullies will change words to suit to suit their purposes, without rhyme or reason, forgetting today what they said yesterday and what they might say tomorrow.
Be dignified [but firm], keep your cool [but don’t lose your passion], and do what is necessary [even when they slander you].
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