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发帖数: 29846 | 1 It begins: New NYC schools chancellor will push ‘progressive agenda’
10:16 AM 01/02/2014
Now that New York City Mayor and far-left Democrat Bill de Blasio has chosen
Carmen Farina to become chancellor of NYC schools, city residents can
expect a sharp turn to the left on education policy.
Farina, a former teacher and long-time adviser to de Blasio, shares the
mayor’s desire to foist a “progressive agenda” upon NYC schools, she said
at a news conference earlier this week.
“This progressive agenda actually says we know there are things that need
to happen, but they need to happen with people, not to people,” she said.
That means liberal education goals — including an expansion of taxpayer-
funded pre-K and elimination of merit-based pay for teachers — will
definitely be a top priority for the new administration.
Farina taught in a Brooklyn elementary school for over 20 years, eventually
becoming a principal. She became known as a supporter for supplemental after
-school programs and universal pre-K as she transitioned to more prestigious
jobs in the city education administration. She retired in 2006, and is now
70 years old.
The daughter of Spanish immigrants, Farina felt “invisible” when she
attended school as a child, according to Fox News Latino. Promoting racial
integration of New York schools continues to be a top priority of both
Farina and de Blasio.
Both take a more skeptical view of charter schools, school choice and
standardized testing than former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican
who became an independent during his terms in office. In fact, Farina
personally battled a charter school that attempted to move into her
neighborhood in 2011.
School reform advocates are already worried that Farina and de Blasio are
likely to roll back some of the institutional and financial support that
Bloomberg provided to the city’s charter school movement. Modifying the
city’s lease agreements with charter schools could force them to pay
thousands more dollars per student.
It’s less clear how Farina will proceed on Common Core, the national
curriculum guidelines currently being implemented all over the country. Like
many moderate chief executives, Bloomberg supported the standards. Rank-and
-file teachers union members — as well as many conservatives — remain
deeply skeptical of Common Core and its required testing, however. (RELATED:
Common Core haters are ‘misinformed,’ says New York ed commissioner)
Farina supports the curriculum component of Common Core, but may opt to
modify the standardized testing it requires in order to make things more
palatable to evaluation-conscious teachers. If that happens, NYC liberals
might just get every education-related thing they could ever want. | c****i
发帖数: 7933 | 2 市民選的，自己為自己的決定負責。反正我在紐約換人之前是不會去這個城市了。 | j*****v
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