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NYC_SKP

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1. I think I like her....

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Sep 5, 2014, 10:41 AM

Sep 2014

By 1997 she was teaching at Prep for Prep, a program in New York City for gifted minority students. She assigned her 11th graders to document the disparities between the city’s cleaning of parks on the wealthy Upper East Side and its non-upkeep of a park in the Harlem neighborhood where some of them lived. She told the students to take photos and complain to the sanitation and parks departments. “We created a little bit of a ruckus,” she said. “I think Prep for Prep was nervous about it. I was asked why I couldn’t just do simulations.” The park, she continued, got a cleaning.

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The Battle for New York Schools: Eva Moskowitz vs. Mayor Bill de Blasio [View all] elleng Sep 2014 OP

I think I like her.... NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #1

but elleng Sep 2014 #2

Eva will win. Money and power, and very friendly press. madfloridian Sep 2014 #3