Leonie Haimson, who is undoubtedly New York City’s most outspoken and energetic education activist, wrote a terrific critique of the New York Times’ editorial defending the Bloomberg era of education misrule.

The editorial, as she correctly notes, is a defense of the tired and failed status quo of the past dozen years.

It reads as if it had been written by “the City Hall PR machine.”

Haimson points out that  the Times ran an editorial very critical of Bloomberg’s stale education ideas on May 19, but this one appears to have been written by a different person.

Should the Bloomberg policies continue, as the Times suggests?

Almost every student in the New York City public schools attended a school system ruled by Mayor Bloomberg.

After 12 years, where is the success?

As the Times’ editorial points out, only 22% of the students who graduated in 2012 were “college-ready,” as judged by the State Education Department’s standards.

And every year, more schools are marked for closure because they are “failing.”

Isn’t all of this on Bloomberg’s watch?

Isn’t it time to hold him accountable for such paltry results?

As we have often noted on this blog, accountability is only for the little people–the teachers in the classroom, not for the mayor or the chancellor or the deputy chancellors or the legion of other well-paid administrators who make the decisions.