Thursday's Editorial Pages
May 31st, 2007
The Daily News agrees with the City Council’s decision to reject an effort to rename a Brooklyn street after Sonny Carson. “Speaker Christine Quinn was right to fight the measure, and the majority of the Council disposed of it fittingly,” the News writes.
The Daily News also urges the Albany to help 36,000 New Yorkers who could lose health insurance July 1.
The New York Post warns a state commission charged with studying higher education not to compromise entrance standards.
In the New York Sun, Fred Smith, a retired Board of Education administrative analyst, questions the Bloomberg administration’s handling of test scores of students with limited English proficiency. In 2005, Smith argues, the Department of Education “removed thousands of low-performing students from the test population” in order to boost its pre-election numbers.
By Mark Berkey-Gerard on May 31, 2007, 8:10 amIn category: Gotham City | 1 Comment »



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May 31st, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Mark,
I thought you had left NY. Good to see your name.
Simeon