Eva Moskowitz announced she will not challenge Bill de Blasio in 2017.
Her work in education reform, she says, is too important.
She said humbly,
“I’m doing for education, frankly, what Apple did with computing for the iPhone; what Google is doing with driverless cars,” Moskowitz said.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Sorry but no, what she’s doing for education lies somewhere between what Carly Fiorina did for HP and what Pol Pot did for Cambodia.
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TAGO!
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LOL Jon!
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“The No. 1 criticism lofted at Carly Fiorina is that she oversaw the disastrous 2002 Compaq merger, leading to some 30,000 layoffs at Hewlett-Packard during her tenure as CEO”
As per History channel:
“Pol Pot (1925-1998) and his communist Khmer Rouge movement led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During that time, about 1.5 million Cambodians out of a total population of 7 to 8 million died of starvation, execution, disease or overwork. Some estimates place the death toll even higher. One detention center, S-21, was so notorious that only seven of the roughly 20,000 people imprisoned there are known to have survived. The Khmer Rouge, in their attempt to socially engineer a classless peasant society, took particular aim at intellectuals, city residents, ethnic Vietnamese, civil servants and religious leaders. An invading Vietnamese army deposed the Khmer Rouge in 1979, and, despite years of guerilla warfare, they never took power again. Pol Pot died in 1998 without ever being brought to justice.”
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“Let’s burn down the Washington political machine and rebuild this country,” – Mike Huckabee, presidential candidate, from his “Strip Club” ad.
“Terrified and half-crazy, the people were ready to believe what they were told… That was what made it so easy for the Khmer Rouge to win the people over” – former Khmer Rouge official, Chhit Do
We all know where history lead with the scorched earth policies of Pol Pot claiming to destroy Cambodia then rebuild it. These Republican candidates are all embracing a scorched earth policy for America. That should scare the heck out of sane people.
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Add what Mao’s Cultural Revolution did for China.
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Self deception can be so satisfying!
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Mirror mirror on the wall . . .
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Next time, please put in a warning that “air sickness bag will be need to read this post.”
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Amazing display of self-importance and clearly a dangerous mind for any position in public office and education.
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Gag
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“….Like Google did for driveless cars, I am getting rid of the teachers”. Hoorah!…Teacherless schools…hmmmmm
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One thing is for certain: There is no stopping them. The driverless cars will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
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I can’t tell if you’re trying to be funny or if you are serious Flerp. I’ve forgotten how much you love anything charter and despise public schools.
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“I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.” I think FLERP is talking about Terminator.
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I believe that Flerp’s last line is an adaptation of a Simpsons episode in which Kent Brockman welcomes their new Ant Overlords who will make citizens toil in underground sugar caves.
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Even hedge fund managers want to be able to go the toilet when they need to.
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She’s a legend in her own mind.
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Yep.
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Driverless cars = teacherless classrooms
Apple iPhone has Siri – SA just needs Evabots.
Got it!
S U C C E S S !!!
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Or perhaps:
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You read my mind …
The Borg Queen Speaks …
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She probably does not want to release financial records
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Eva Moskowitz is the “driverless car” of education?
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+1
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Oh, I thought she was the malware.
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It seems someone has an overly inflated opinion of her own self worth.
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Could we please keep politics out of these conversations? Independents, Democrats and Republicans are on the same page here if we are against Common Core, high stakes testing and charters. Let’s work together and draw attention to those persons who are fighting against our ideals. I want to learn from all of you who have the experience and expertise in your fields on what is happening in education. I am not an educator. I do not need political enlightenment. Thank you, Diane, for your dedication and very hard work.
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Probably most of us, including me, don’t know or care what party Eva Moskowitz claims allegiance to (guess = Dem being NY) — what we care about is the fact that she is a very bad person to be involved in schools — charters drain resources from public schools (if charters were “legal” and existed where I live, I would gladly serve as a named plaintiff in a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of their existence) and so Ms. Moskowitz has committed the sin of stealing resources from public schoolchildren, as well as damaging the psyche of those who are subjected to her “prison like” schools.
She is a very powerful woman, though — lots of rich folks are her friends — the issue of her becoming mayor rather than continuing to abuse the law and the students whose parents are subjecting them to her abuse is relevant for EDUCATIONAL reasons.
So you want to learn who is damaging to our children and our democracy ? Eva Moskowitz, that’s who — highly paid charter CEO.
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Politicians that crafted the money siphoning scheme should be charged as accomplices.
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Her damage is done not only to the innocent students in her no excuses schools but to the young teachers who get jobs at these schools. …churn-turn-and burn out…
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just how do you propose to keep politics out of education? the very act of ignoring politics when talking about education is a distinctly political act.
there is nothing about education that is apolitical.
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Thank you.
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Cha-Ching, Eva, baby !!!!!!!
What you are doing for education is what the Enola Gay did for Hiroshima . . . All, of course, in the realm of metaphors. There is immediate destruction and decades of damage for years to come. Thank goodness, Misery Moscowitz, you have both bases covered.
What’s the game plan? Suck money from public schools, co-locate, offer little no transparency, discipline and threaten your little “scholars”, and finally, throw out the kiddies who don’t produce your rote and drill scores . . . More Darwinian than Darwin.
Oh, Eva, why not just start your own all-girls’ network with Oprah, Michelle Rhee and Campbell Brown. You can do each other’s hair and nails, talk about boys, and oh, I almost forgot, destroy a major keystone of a great nations’ democracy’s: public education.
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Eva is loathsome, and thus is widely loathed, even by other so-called reformers who should be her allies. Her silly, self-aggrandizing announcement acknowledges political reality here in New York. My guess is that her patrons and supporters, and probably she herself, understand that she’ll never be accepted by the electorate, and that she operates most efficiently as an alpha predator in “the K-12 education space.”
It’s more likely ed reform venture capital will invest in Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a charter shill who will be cynically used to undermine Mayor De Blasio’s political support among African Americans.
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Agreed, Michael Fiorillo. The hedge fund guys are actively seeking an African American challenger to cut into de Blasio’s base. The Times recently wrote about charter supporter Hakeem Jeffries as an attractive candidate to the Wall Street crowd
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Thanks for the laugh, Diane. I needed that.
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Eva, stop with the Quaaludes….
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Whatever her ambitions, she needs to do what her hedge fund funders tell her. I’m sure they’re aware she would face pressure to release her tax returns, which would reveal all of her income. Her salary and whatever extras thrown at her by the Deformers just would not sit well with voters. The charter schools cannot keep pleading poverty and asking for more and more funding and more school space etc. if it’s shown that Moskowitz is making oodles of money for her charter school mini-empire. Perhaps, too, she doesn’t want a media spotlight shined on her past personal life, which will surely happen if she runs for Mayor.
Unfortunately, she isn’t the only hedge fund shill in town.
The big reason she isn’t going to run is that her bosses the hedge funders have found more pleasing figureheads and will either choose the Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz or Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries or both to favor with their reform bucks and go up against DeBlasio in the Democratic primary.
Moskowitz’s latest, repulsive ad shows the hedge funder will pursue a race-based strategy for getting more charters and putting a deformer in charge at City Hall.
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Meanwhile, they’re still stonewalling on releasing information in Ohio:
“Ohio Board of Education President Tom Gunlock refused to release communications requested by state Auditor Dave Yost for his annual audit and probe into the education department’s rigging of charter-school evaluations.
In a three-page letter, Gunlock told Yost that communications between education department attorneys and employees regarding the evaluations were protected under attorney-client privilege.
“I believe that you can make the determination of whether ODE followed the sponsor evaluation law for those first five sponsor evaluations without having to violate ODE’s attorney-client privilege,” Gunlock wrote.
Gunlock, a board member from Centerville appointed by Gov. John Kasich, also assured Yost “ that ODE would continue to cooperate with your office to facilitate completion of this audit.”
The Republican school board member won’t release charter communications to the Republican auditor, yet they’re vastly expanding charter schools anyway.
This is Month Ten of this controversy, in a state where 93% of the kids DON’T attend charter schools- the entire state government is consumed with the “choice” agenda.
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Well, she is close to something with the “driverless car” part or should it read “asleep at the wheel”?
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This is the goal, though, to turn every public school into a Success Academy. She gives presentations all the time. They absolutely fawn over her in DC. There is no public school superintendent that gets the kind of access to rich and powerful people that she does.
She testified to a Congressional economic committee last spring. She’s not only going to “reform” every public school in the country, the dopes also take her advice on the economy. She has a lot of ideas about what the lower and middle classes should be doing, and our lemming-like political leaders are all listening to her.
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Frankly, my dear Eva, I don’t give a damn . . . for you, your schools, or your ginormous ego. Just stay the heck out of my Upstate region!
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Guys, someone has to keep an eye on maintaining those unbelievably high test scores. The underground strategies and ‘cleaning up those stray marks on test bubbles’…get my drift, can’t be exposed. She can’t leave there unless she has someone continue the, soon to be a scandal, unbelievable scores for profit. She is quite an entrepreneur.
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She does for education what the Titanic did for steamship travel.
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Grandiosity is a very dangerous personality flaw
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Humbly. Lol.
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If she ran for mayor, her platform would have been privatize the DOE completely and destroy the union. Not a winning platform in NYC. Here where I live in District 26 which is one of the city’s highest achieving districts and not a single charter, we had such wonderful plans for her if she ran! We are so disappointed
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Not much of an ego?
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‘ “I’m doing for education, frankly, what Apple did with computing for the iPhone; what Google is doing with driverless cars,” Moskowitz said.’
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,…
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What a delusional twit.
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The only platform she should have has subways zipping by it.
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OMG, the quote is too funny. That needs to get out there more; many people will recognize the delusional arrogance.
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And what Nero did for Rome.
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Or what L. Ron Hubbard did for religion.
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I think the analogy Eva should’ve used was
“I’m doing for education, frankly, what Martin Winterkorn did with Volkswagons”. That is, scamming the public and manipulating the data for the money.
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These pathetic delusional narcissists would be something to laugh at or even pity except for the fact the likes of Moskowitz and Gates are causing a lot of damage to public education in the US. It will takes us decades to undo the damage and get back on track. Wake up America…get to the polls……feel the BERN!
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I believe the real reason she decided not to run is that she is afraid that a run for public office will invite all kinds of personal, financial and professional scrutiny. Stringer’s office started a financial and organizational audit of Success Academy last year but the report has not been published yet. I tried getting information about the status of the report but the office would not give me any information.
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I think her quote is spot on. What she left out is they made billions and that’s the only comparison that counts. She knows she has more power to control who the next mayor will be (Dem or Republican) with Cuomo’s blessing, and then she can pull his/her puppet strings. deBlasio has been awful and once again I feel bamboozled by a politician. Now if he were to kick Carmen to the curb along with her Klein cronies and bring in a rebel who will stand up to the Reforms and bring changes that actually match reality, he may have a chance of winning strongly again.
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The thing is he allowed Cuomo to cut his knees off by hanging mayoral control over his head. And he will find a way to take that control away from Bill no matter what he does. So why not make a bold move and bring in a bold person with enough creds to stand up to Cuomo.
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A tad arrogant I would say.
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“I am doing for public education, frankly, what Stalin did for Ukrainian agriculture; what Oppenheimer did for the citizens of Hiroshima. I have become death, destroyer of all public schools.”
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What Hirohito did to the citizens of Hiroshima would be a more Accurate statement.
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So she’s creating a system where workers out of touch with management commit suicide out of desperation, & there is apparently no one at the controls, making it hopelessly complex to determine who’s ultimately responsible if anything goes wrong?
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Grandiosity: an unrealistic sense of superiority.
Psychiatry: having an exaggerated belief in one’s importance.
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Such a humble reply.
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