Success spox disputed they were taking a position in election: “We are not seeking to influence mayoral elections. [unsaid & unreported: because this could threaten their nonprofit status] &”We are not canceling school; we are moving it to the streets.” chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/0…

2/Clearly there’s a double standard. One can only imagine if a public school cancelled classes to participate in an anti-charter rally. The criticism from electeds, media & social media would be fierce.

This conversation between Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Bernie Sanders lays out a vision of Democratic governance and messaging that feels more honest, humane, and compelling than almost anything else in politics right now.

BREAKING Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against Letitia James. THIS IS FASCISM.

I literally reported on this smear campaign in 2018. They are just recirculating and already debunked story seven years later and pretending that no one remembers. Ilhan Omar did not marry her own brother but Trump did rape his own wife.

URGENT BREAKING: United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert just resigned after Trump said he wanted him out, following his refusal to indict Letitia James. Note: He was appointed by Trump. This is what “going after your political opponents”

Some who have not endorsed Zohran Mamdani: — Stefani Zinerman (75-25)😬 — Jo Anne Simon (74-26) — Andrew Gounardes (73-27)🧐 — Jenifer Rajkumar (70-30)😅 — Dan Goldman (68-31)👀 — Grace Lee (65-35) — Catalina Cruz (64-36) — Jessica Ramos (60-40)😂 (Mamdani-Cuomo primary result)

Andrew Cuomo Zohran Mamdani Tl;dr: the one true bit of this is "New Yorkers aren't stupid." That's why we already voted for ZM instead of you. Why are you still out here embarrassing yourself?

Cuomo vs. Sliwa vs. Mamdani on class size, charter schools & Mayoral control; & what Cuomo said to PLACE leaders at their education forum nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2025/09/cuomo-…

I was appointed to Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos AI Working Group & we haven’t even begun working on guidelines for use of AI --to ensure it doesn’t violate student privacy, undermine learning,  weaken human connection or threaten the environment. And yet the Chancellor announced today:

We haven't even heard before today that DOE has any AI "framework" & so far they have refused to provide us even with names of AI programs already used in schools. This is hardly the "transparency" or "collaboration" that Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos promises in the rest of her speech. 😟

Young people deserve to be and feel safe in schools—and the mayor and president are making TGNC kids less safe. The mayor knows the harm that fanning the flames of transphobia causes, but he'd rather sell out vulnerable New Yorkers than support young people. NYC won't have it.

First time I've ever seen Cuomo apologize But it's not to families of seniors, or to the women he assaulted, or for past antisemitic statements Instead he's apologizing for treating all communities equally during COVID

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

Kill thousands of people through his vicious DOGE cuts and raise his wealth to $500B. That’s the MAGA way.

For some of our posts on the gifted program in NYC, the NYT obsession with the issue, and it’s segregating impact -nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/search?q=Gifted

Wow!

The language on Mayor Adams’ ballot proposals 2, 3, and 4 largely conceals their true impact – to eliminate the only required vote of a democratically elected body on development proposals. Read more here: council.nyc.gov/press/2025/10/…

NEW: Brian Romero, a DSA member who worked as chief of staff to Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas, is now running to replace González-Rojas in the Assembly. (González-Rojas will be vacating her Assembly seat to run for state Senate.) cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/…

Terrific interview with Zohran Kwame Mamdani who among other topics talks about 2 concerns of many public ed parents & advocates: charter school push outs & DOE excessive spending on contracts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…