Fariña takes ‘polite’ tack at U.F.T. meeting

[hrmjustin]

Eliza Shapiro

Schools chancellor Carmen Fariña repeatedly refused to criticize the Bloomberg administration at the annual United Federation of Teachers spring meeting on Saturday morning, even as U.F.T. president Michael Mulgrew pressed her to comment on teacher evaluations, low teacher morale, and the politics of education reform.

"I've decided that we're going to be very polite about the past and just think about the future and that's the way to go," Fariña said during a town hall forum with Mulgrew at the Hilton Hotel.

Mulgrew did not relent, recalling previous spring meetings when he "screamed at the mayor, 'you're trying to destroy our children with tests,'" and saying "the previous administration was all about fights and anger."

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/04/8544324/fari%C3%B1a-takes-polite-tack-uft-meeting?top-featured-1

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Wrong message to send. Hopefully...

... her role is as caretaker 'til dB figures out what he wants to do.

Clearing out the ED bureaucracy would be great for starters. Farina is too much of an insider to oversee that kind of task.

[hrmjustin]

2. I don't see her there a long time.

[hrmjustin]

3. NYC finds space for 3 charter schools

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say they have found space in closed Catholic schools for three charter schools that were denied the space they thought was theirs.

City officials said Saturday that the three Success Academy charter schools will move into buildings that formerly housed two Roman Catholic schools in Manhattan and one in Queens.

http://www.fltimes.com/news/state/article_ee589d46-bd44-5e41-bae2-a28238d6ce54.html?mode=jqm