LOL: Murdoch's NY Post Says di Blasio "Cannot Deny" Obama's "Progressive Credentials."
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The issue is charter $chools. The Post could have gone local and cited Quid Pro Cuomo's feverish advocacy. But there's the question of that 1M or so Quid Pro just collected from the charter lobby.
So they went to Washington instead. The president may not know a charter school ( or a pubic school, for that matter) from a school of fishies; but he has "progressive credentials."
So says the NY Post.
>>>Bill de Blasio hasn’t yet finished a year in office. But already the elections — here as well as across the country — make clear he has probably already earned his place in history as the last mayor of New York to oppose charter public schools.
There are many reasons for this.
Partly, it’s because the more charters parents get, the more other moms and dads want in for their own children. But partly it’s because de Blasio’s fealty to a failing status quo increasingly makes him an outlier in his own party: Gov. Cuomo thumped for charters and won re-election, and President Obama himself, whose progressive credentials de Blasio cannot deny, recognizes charters as a much-needed reform.
In New York, the coming showdown will be over the state cap limiting the number of charters. Between Gov. Cuomo and the Republican state Senate, it will be no easy matter for the mayor and his teachers-union allies to keep the cap as is.
Remember, we got charters in the first place in 1998 in exchange for a pay hike for Albany. Now our lawmakers want another raise, and the mayor says we should tie it to a boost in the minimum wage.
We have a better idea: How about giving legislators raises only if they give New York’s children more opportunities to escape from what Gov. Cuomo rightly calls a “monopoly” — i.e., if they raise the cap.
And if Mayor Bill still wants to shut down charters, let him close the United Federation of Teachers’ low-performing charter.
All the signs suggest our schoolkids will someday read about a mayor who fought charters but failed to adapt to the changing environment.
Just like the dinosaurs.>>>>>>>>http://nypost.com/2014/11/12/mayor-makes-history/