Tricks of a phony parent advocate | New York Post
Previously exposed as a “fake pal of parents…”
Read Moreby Michael | Mar 14, 2014 | African Americans, Education, Education Reform, Politics, Public Policy | 1 |
Previously exposed as a “fake pal of parents…”
Read Moreby Michael | May 11, 2012 | Education Reform, Public Policy | 4 |
I don’t care for use of the term, “war on…” but I don’t write the headers for my column. We should honor the sacrifice of the men and women killed, maimed and injured in real wars. In today’s...
Read Moreby Michael | May 7, 2012 | Education Reform, Public Policy | 1 |
Since I am not prone to say, “I told you, so!” I’ll let Time magazine’s Andrew Rotherham tell you why I was right to take the Daily News, Ken Jennings and State Ed Commissioner John King to task over...
Read Moreby Michael | Apr 25, 2012 | Education Reform, Public Policy | 2 |
This past weekend, I read with great annoyance of the so-called Pineapple-gate” and the resulting weeklong standardized test-bashing echo chamber. Critics were calling for the trashing of the recent 8th grade ELA exam...
Read Moreby Michael | Apr 11, 2012 | Education Reform, Government, Politics, Public Policy | 2 |
This morning, my OpEd on Governor Cuomo and teacher evaluations was published by the NY Post. Cuomo and the state legislature are considering a measure that would shield the evaluations from dissemination to the general public....
Read Moreby Michael | Jan 31, 2012 | Education Reform, Public Policy | 0 |
It’s time to shake up New York’s shameful special-education system — and the way to do it is with a school-choice program for students with special needs and other disabilities. A recent audit by the city Comptroller’s Office...
Read Moreby Michael | Jan 27, 2012 | Education Reform, Public Policy, Uncategorized | 0 |
During his weekly radio interview this morning with WOR’s John Gambling, Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested that former US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s threshold test for pornography could be applied to bad...
Read Moreby Michael | Oct 23, 2011 | Education Reform, Government, Public Policy | 0 |
This morning the NY Post reports on parent reaction to the details of the city’s new sex ed mandate and what’s in the curriculum (see below). And there is a planned rally tomorrow calling for a true...
Read Moreby Michael | Oct 19, 2011 | Education Reform, Government, Health, Public Policy, Religion | 1 |
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental Rights? By ROBERT P. GEORGE and MELISSA MOSCHELLA Published: October 19, 2011 Princeton,N.J. IMAGINE you have a 10- or 11-year-old child,just entering a public middle school....
Read Moreby Michael | Oct 7, 2011 | Government, Health, Public Policy | 0 |
Mike Bloomberg, Not That Innocent – Interview – National Review Online. Parents ought to have a choice, Rev. Michel J. Faulkner, the pastor of New Horizon Church in Harlem — and a former...
Read Moreby Michael | Oct 2, 2011 | Education Reform, Government, Health, Public Policy | 3 |
This week, NYC Parents Choice coalition took its grassroots campaign for an alternative medically accurate abstinence-centered sex education curriculum to the steps of City Hall. We were joined by Greg Pfundstein (Chiaroscuro...
Read Moreby Michael | Aug 18, 2011 | Education Reform, Public Policy | 1 |
Time to can middle schools – New York Post Last Updated: 4:05 AM, August 18, 2011 We should simply eliminate the city’s regular public middle schools: They do more harm than good. Right now, fewer than half of our...
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