Sure to happen:
1. Joel Klein hires an ex-Edison staffer to investigate this claim.
2. Alvarez & Marsal sign a multi-million dollar contract to update the website.
3. The N.Y. Post blames the problem on sleazy unionized teachers.
4. Mayor Mike tells Ms. Blumenthal-Levy to "get over it."
5. Six months hence, the website has been adjusted, but now lists the east 87th St. address as being zoned for Roosevelt Island.
6. The last remaining veteran of the old Board of Ed. to work at Tweed is designated as official scapegoat, is publicly vilified, and is "allowed" to retire.
7. Ms. Blumenthal-Levy wins an $80 million lawsuit; however, by this time her child is in graduate school.
8. Life goes on, as usual.
It is a shame that people with the means do not take more interest in schools apart from the potential real estate value a good school might bring. If more people utilized a "send your kid to the neighborhood school" philosophy and worked together to advocate for the schools in the areas they lived, we'd probably have a more effective education system in general. Instead, the general public's attitude is that it's always someone else's responsibility to improve schools.
The real estate agent said, "I would have thought you'd be pretty safe relying on the Department of Education."
Has this woman not read the newspaper??? Does she not know about the bus fiasco? School overcrowding? The mayor/chancellor refusing to lower class size? The mayor/chancellor alienating all parents and parent groups? Hiring inexperienced people to complete the awful training at the Principal's Academy and then being sent to schools to destroy them as well as all morale? Hiring incompetent and unqualified people like Cerf? That he hired Marsh and Alvarez for a huge sum to find savings of that same sum? Closing down large schools that service immigrant/ESL populations and in those same buildings planning smaller schools that shut out these same populations??? Trailers that leak and have mold problems?
This mayor has done the unthinkable...he has made the BOE/DOE even that much less reliable. That the website is unreliable is just the tip of the iceberg!!!
I'm not here to defend the Post, and I'm sure if they had known Solidarity was a labor union they would have supported the KGB's crackdown, but they have never missed the chance to jump on Bloomberg. They attacked Bloomie on the bus crisis, the Astoria Con Ed flap, and any number of issues.
It's Zuckerman's Daily News that never, aside from Juan Gonzalez, met a Bloomie action it didn't support. And besides the Post sports' section is the best.
Let's not get carried away with praising the Post. Last weekend, in a bizarre editorial, they called those of us who supported equitable access to Randalls Island playing fields "bigots". The argument was that we were trying to discriminate against rich people. These tabloids are owned by extraordinarily rich men who employ editorial page editors to advance their agendas or simply stroke their egos.
I think your definition of praise needs work. Read my intro sentence. What I attempted to do was compare the Post with the News. In any such comparison the News comes off as Bloomie's mouthpiece. The Post will support him when he is in line with their political and social views, i.e. the Randalls Island scenario, and be vigorously in opposition for the same reasons. The News makes no such distinctions.
From the Daily News story: "...Blumenthal-Levy is an attorney...who found the apartment herself online"
You would think that a lawyer would be more diligent in researching this transaction instead of blaming someone else.
I don’t know if this applies to NY, but here in California, the school district lines are re-drawn every couple of years as needed to balance out the enrollment as population shifts.
School district lines are drawn in the sand and subject to the prevailing winds.
I don't much like the Post's editorial page, and I don't think they have anything but right-wing columnists, but Dave Andreata takes no prisoners over there when he reports on education. I don't always like what he writes, but I'm certain the mayor likes it far less than I do.
Murdoch is one thing, but I don't see Andreata's agenda as anything but reporting what's going on. And the News, of late, has been a lot less enamored of this mayor than it used to be.
Well, well, well...once again we are confronted with that old truth-just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean you have a lot of brains. My sister went to the schools she wanted her children to attend and chatted up the secretaries who were very helpful. They even told her if they heard of anything coming up on the market they would let her know...as it happened I saw a great place online before her agent did and called my sis. They moved in, it's wonderful, the kids are all in great schools and the agent got a fat commission. I and the kindly secretaries got another jewel in our crowns.
I agree with Northbrooklyn; a visit to the Yorkville school and a chat with the secretaries would have been the intelligent thing.
Why berate the real estate agent who was relying on information supplied by a faulty computer system.
Go for the gusto, announce a suit against the Department of Education for their sloppy computer softwear and settle for allowing your sons to attend PS 290!
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