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	<title>Comments on: A Lesson in School Contracts</title>
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		<title>By: Dee Alpert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dee Alpert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder why nobody has published information regarding the political contributions, if any, of the firms which received the largest contracts awarded without competitive bidding or documentation of necessity of non-competitive bidding procedures.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder why nobody has published information regarding the political contributions, if any, of the firms which received the largest contracts awarded without competitive bidding or documentation of necessity of non-competitive bidding procedures.</p>
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		<title>By: Larry Littlefield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry Littlefield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 17:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is anybody going to ask why funding for schools is being cut (again) while total spending for education is expected to rise, in part through state and local tax increases and in part through federal debt?

The 25/55 pension plan was pushed by Weingarten, agreed by Bloomberg, passed by the Assembly with almost no votes against, passed by the Republican State Senate without any no votes in exchange for UFT support in a special election upstate, and signed by Spitzer just before Client 9.  No press releases were issued on the subject, and no one talks about it.  So neither does the press, including this organization.

Ask the question!

Fair school funding is being abandoned.  The assertion that teachers who no one wants to be responsible for will not be placed in the classroom is being abandoned.  The after school and summer programs to give disadvantaged kids are chance are being abandonded.

And spending is going up -- until federal money runs out.  Where is it going, and why is that fair?  Why is the outcome of all this attention to the schools over a decade going to be earlier retirement for NYC teachers, and higher spending in the rest of the state where it was off the charts to begin with?

It&#039;s over.  And no one will say who the winners are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is anybody going to ask why funding for schools is being cut (again) while total spending for education is expected to rise, in part through state and local tax increases and in part through federal debt?</p>
<p>The 25/55 pension plan was pushed by Weingarten, agreed by Bloomberg, passed by the Assembly with almost no votes against, passed by the Republican State Senate without any no votes in exchange for UFT support in a special election upstate, and signed by Spitzer just before Client 9.  No press releases were issued on the subject, and no one talks about it.  So neither does the press, including this organization.</p>
<p>Ask the question!</p>
<p>Fair school funding is being abandoned.  The assertion that teachers who no one wants to be responsible for will not be placed in the classroom is being abandoned.  The after school and summer programs to give disadvantaged kids are chance are being abandonded.</p>
<p>And spending is going up &#8212; until federal money runs out.  Where is it going, and why is that fair?  Why is the outcome of all this attention to the schools over a decade going to be earlier retirement for NYC teachers, and higher spending in the rest of the state where it was off the charts to begin with?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s over.  And no one will say who the winners are.</p>
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