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To paraphrase Samantha Bee, this is a man who managed to lose money in the casino business. The house always loses, as they say![]()
The Upper West Side is another place where the “rights” of rich parents are being pitted against the reality of the neighborhood’s demographics. The current battleground is the sought-after P.S. 452 on West 77th Street, a stone’s throw from the Museum of Natural History.
Like so many public schools in New York City, P.S. 452 has a lopsided enrollment, with a population that’s three-quarters white and Asian, with only 13 percent of kids qualifying for free lunch, in a district that’s 43 percent white and Asian and 48 percent low-income, according to a Chalkbeat story on the brewing controversy.
P.S. 452, which opened in 2010 to relieve overcrowding in other nearby sought-after schools, quickly became overcrowded itself. And so the city proposed moving the school, which currently shares a building with two other schools, 16 blocks south, to a site with more space that happens to be just adjacent to large housing projects. In one swoop, the city could solve the school’s capacity problem while improving its diversity.
One P.S. 452 parent speaking out against the move is comedian and former Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, who’s married to Samantha Bee. "To portray any opposition as classist or racist is as bad as it can get," Jones told WNYC. And elsewhere: "We are not divided,” he said at a public hearing about the proposal, “we are absolutely united in wanting what's best for our children," then encouraged fellow parents not to talk to the press about the controversy.
Isn't there some kind of unwritten rule about throwing stones & glass houses?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled...s_latest_school_integration_battleground.html
From one perspective I applaud his stance, from another it confirms a fear I've had about him.
As a corporate CEO with controlling interest in the concern he listens to his advisors but in the end he makes the final decision. Yes, he like all corporate CEO's try to build a consensus, but in the end it is a dictatorship. (This is one of the attributes that was manifest in Ross Perot as well.) They are not well attuned to dealing with 'shared' power.
One of the things I don't understand is why he hasn't used his legitimate presidential powers to put pressure on congress. Such as rescinding the EO that managed to exempt congressional staffers from having to participate in "ShuckNJiveCare." My feeling is that when congress has to live with the bill they passed their defense of the enactment might not be so politically motivated. Trump is not a political animal in the conventional sense, so if he's going to piss congress off, piss them ALL off equally.
Ishmael
Will Lit Wingnut Nation lose some of their recent swagger and reduce the gloating?
Love reading about Ryan racing to the White House to whine to daddy that no one wants to play with him. These people are a JOKE.
I try to maintain empathy for the people who swallowed the lies and got us here. But it's tough.
So I'm confused about how long the ACA has been in its so called "death spiral". Didn't it just pass its 7 year anniversary. Exactly how long has it been "spiraling"?.
I wonder if he has the balls?
Ask someone whose deductible has climbed to $12,000.00.
Barry promised lower premiums and deductibles. How did that work out?
Are you one of those people? Can you name one? Can you answer the question?
And then there is the question, is it better to have a high deductible, or no insurance at all?
Those cheap Obamacare plans are getting even more expensive.
Deductibles for individuals enrolled in the lowest-priced Obamacare health plans will average more than $6,000 in 2017, the first time that threshold has been cracked in the three years that Affordable Care Act marketplaces have been in business, a new analysis finds.
Families enrolled in bronze plans will have average deductibles of $12,393, according to the study by the consumer insurance comparison site HealthPocket.