The Deadly Scandal at NYCHA

By Robert Golomb

The United States Declaration of Independence guarantees every American the “Right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  Tell that to the more than four hundred thousand mostly poor and working- class tenants of New York City Housing Authority buildings, many of whom live in apartments containing dangerous levels of exposure to lead paint poisoning.  

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June 2018 President’s Message – Save the SHSAT

By Phil Orenstein

It’s the progressive left versus both Republicans and Democrats on this issue. Every parent wants to preserve higher standards in education for their children. The vast majority of teachers who work for the DOE want to keep the SHS admissions process the way it is. The majority of voters of all political parties want to keep the merit system from being undermined by a small minority of leftwing elitists who want to dictate their utopian vision of mediocrity to all of us.

They’re at it again. The progressive left, or the “new progressives” as they like to call themselves, are challenging the exceptionalism and merit system of American institutions, and they are taking the Democrats down this dangerous path with them. They want jobs for all, free college tuition, free universal healthcare, they want to coddle criminals and attack law enforcement, abolish political views they disagree with, and they want to punish success and achievement, and reward mediocrity in every institution of America.

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