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...independent charter schools. Theoretically, any organization-including the teachers' union-was eligible to propose its own system if it presented a plausible plan for a 500-student campus and agreed to Thompson's 90-90 yardstick. New state legislation would be needed to establish the schools. But both Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Governor Jennifer Granholm were thrilled by Thompson's offer-at least until the Detroit Federation of Teachers made plain its opposition. On Sept. 25 the DFT held a work stoppage, which closed the public schools, and staged a rally at the state capitol in Lansing. The mayor...
...This was thinly veiled racial politics. "You've got a lot of poison in the air," Mayor Kilpatrick told me. "People here are sensitive about white people bossing them around." Kilpatrick insisted he wasn't opposed to more charter schools; his own children go to one. And he was not pleased by the union's role, even though he's a former teacher. "The teachers' union once was a progressive force, but that day has passed," he says. "And it's not coming back until the union realizes that we're going to have to make dramatic changes to improve...
...Calderón was elected mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s largest city, and her name has been prominent in the U.S. due to her strong efforts to stop the Navy’s bombing of Vieques, a Puerto Rican Island...
With negotiations heating up between the city and its labor force, including teachers, police and firefighters, Mayor Bloomberg threw down the gauntlet last month at a meeting of the Municipal Labor Committee, saying that there would be no pay increases for the city’s workers without productivity increases. This comment comes as part of a proud tradition of comments from the Bloomberg administration concerning the productivity of city workers that started with Deputy Mayor Marc V. Shaw’s calls last year to close several firehouses and his comment that city firefighters were inefficient because they only...
...proposed return to neighborhood schools is in its infant stages, and the school department is still computing the attendant projections, but Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s general endorsement—especially given his strong ties with the minority communities in Boston—should guide the council toward this new solution. Clearly, the plan must be crafted with significant input from parents and community groups. It must account for the potential influx of students returning to the BPS from private or parochial institutions if residents have more confidence and ownership in neighborhood schools. Such a dramatic increase...