Cuomo Pushes Teacher Evaluations(WSJ)Cuomo
told school districts to adopt new evaluation systems for teachers or
risk losing a portion of their state funding, employing his expansive
budgetary powers to set education policy. *Gov. Cuomo applies muscle in new budget (Newsday) Newsday
calls Cuomo’s education reforms “the centerpiece of another sensible
budget,” and suggests support for the Aqueduct Convention Center and
other economic development plans will hinge on a transparent planning
process *Face it, teacher quality matters(NYDN) * You fix ed system, or I will: Gov (NYDN)* Thanks
to a smaller budget deficit than last year ($2 billion after the tax
code reform deal, compared to $10 billion), Cuomo’s cuts were mostly
nips and tucks, allowing him to focus
on sweeping policy reforms.* “Following a successful first year in
Albany, the governor went all-in with his cred, arguing for a budget
blueprint that tackles some of the state’s thorniest issues,” the DN’s Ken Lovett writes. * Not surprisingly, the public employee unions weren’t big on Cuomo’s Tier 6 proposal. Republican lawmakers were generally supportive
of Cuomo’s budget, but voiced concern about how he plans to pay for
all the big-ticket infrastructure and economic development items in
it.* “The budget process starts now and it ends at the end of March,” said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who called Cuomo’s budget proposal a “good document.”* Cuomo raised another
$6.2 million over the past six months – about $1 million a month – and
now has $14.4 million on hand. His biggest donation was $100,000 from
the Manhattan law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres &amp; Friedman.*
The leader of the state's largest public sector union called Cuomo's pension reforms "an assault on the middle class."

UFT Attacks Bloomberg Not the Politically Popular Cuomo

Mike: UFT doesn’t give a s#!t about losing aid (NYP)
In an editorial board meeting with the New York Post, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg claims the UFT doesn’t care about losing potential education
funds if a teacher evaluation system isn’t implemented.

Paterson the Education Reformer

Spirit of reform renewed (TU)Cuomo’s
teacher evaluation reforms and new pension tier would likely not have
been proposed in the budget without former Gov. David Paterson’s
pioneering use of budget “extenders” to threaten government shutdown

Bloomnberg Makes His Legacy Move on the UFT

Unanswered Question: In the Education War Where Do the 2013 Mayoral Candidates Stand on Teacher Evaluations?

NYP Goes After Poor Performing UFT Charter SchoolThe UFT proves a point(NYP Ed)File this under “TP” for Totally Predictable: A charter school run by
the United Federation of Teachers isn’t cutting it — and may soon be
shut down. The charter saw a mere eight of its 82 eighth-graders
pass the state reading test this year, one of the worst rates of any
city charter. Just 28 percent passed math. The Post
relishes the problems of a
United Federation of Teachers-run charter school that may soon be shut
down, saying that charter schools weren’t meant to bypass union rules
The president of the American Federation of Teachers wrote a letter to
the Post about the movie Won't Back Down, saying "We share the film's sense of urgency" but disagree with their "false stereotype of teachers and their union." [Randi Weingarten]

‘Labor’ pain for school
(NYP) It’s no lesson in leadership. The city teacher union’s bid to show it
could run a charter school as well as any non-unionized shop has blown
up in its face, the latest school results show. Fewer than 10 percent of
eighth-graders at The UFT Charter..