Ah… ====== You can tell it’s an election year because so many noncrises are suddenly urgent priorities. Real median household income is still lower than it was in 2007, the smallest share of Americans is working since 1978, and the Russians are marching west, but Democrats are training fire on race, gender and the grievances of identity politics. “We have this congenital disease,... Read more
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A Catastrophe Like No Other
April 4 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Noonan, ObamaCareWell? ========== Put aside the numbers for a moment, and the daily argument. “Seven point one million people have signed up!” “But six million people lost their coverage and were forced onto the exchanges! That’s no triumph, it’s a manipulation. And how many of the 7.1 million have paid?” “We can’t say, but 7.1 million is a big number and redeems the program.” “Is it a... Read more
What I’ve Learned Teaching Charter Students
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party PoliticsWho is really “for the children”? ====== I’m a seventh-grade math teacher at Success Academy Harlem West, a public charter school. On April 30 and May 2, 3, the 272 students at my school, along with some 480,000 other New York City public school children, will sit for the state math exam. Last year, 89% of my seventh-graders and 83% of our... Read more
The Consumer Financial Bureau’s Bias Shakedown
March 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Losing Freedom, Obama, The LeftI wait for one of my friends on the Left to explain why they support this kind of “executive behavior”? [Which I’m sure they must support…] =========== How does the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau figure out when employers unintentionally discriminate against minorities? The bureau’s lawyers know, or maybe they’re making it up as they go along. Whatever it is, they’re not telling... Read more
The Ideologue vs the Children
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Noonan, UnionsFinally one Democratic politician willing to say, “No” – sort of -to union priorities over good education. ============ What a small and politically vicious man New York’s new mayor is. Bill de Blasio doesn’t like charter schools. They are too successful to be tolerated. Last week he announced he will drop the ax on three planned Success Academy schools. (You know Success... Read more
Improving Education for the Poor… and the Left
March 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Obama, Party Politics, The Left, UnionsAgain, no surprises. ====== Feb. 28, 2014 6:48 p.m. ET New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio carried through this week on one of his campaign’s “progressive” promises: his assault on charter schools. Mr. de Blasio announced that he would not allow Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy to open three new charter schools that had been approved by previous Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Readers of these... Read more
