Wake Up, Mayor de Blasio
Laura Waters
August 12, 2016
Various media outlets (Politico, Chalkbeat, NY Post, Daily News, The 74) are reporting on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s comments yesterday on the
Success Academy’s Harlem West, Wadleigh Secondary, and De Blasio’s “Hodgepodge of Feel-Good Programs”
Laura Waters
October 8, 2015
Nicholas Simmons, currently a vice principal at New York City’s Success Academy, tells his “tale of two schools, one building” in yesterday’s Wall St. Journal.
Mayor De Blasio and UFT: How Close is Too Close? (plus a personal reflection)
Laura Waters
October 1, 2015
I’ve been awfully tough on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and his apparent lack of urgency in addressing the city schoolchildren’s need for meaningful change
Incremental Bill de Blasio vs. Transformative Eva Moskowitz: Coming to a Theater Near You?
Laura Waters
September 30, 2015
This morning Chalkbeat reports on the rain-delayed rally run by Families for Excellent Schools and, more pivotally, the confrontation between those who believe that New