Cuomo Calls Public Schools a "Monopoly."

[Smarmie Doofus]

Wants more charters, more "competition", more bureaucratic observations and teacher evals , more legislation, more red tape, yada yada yada.


More of the same, in other words. Re. the "monopoly" bit: if he were governor of , say , Oklahoma, wouldn't we be calling him a "tea partier"?

New York Daily News:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/cuomo-vows-bust-school-monopoly-re-elected-article-1.1989478

ALBANY — Vowing to break “one of the only remaining public monopolies,” Gov. Cuomo on Monday said he’ll push for a new round of teacher evaluation standards if re-elected.

Cuomo, during a meeting with the Daily News Editorial Board, said better teachers and competition from charter schools are the best ways to revamp an underachieving and entrenched public education system.

“I believe these kinds of changes are probably the single best thing that I can do as governor that’s going to matter long-term,” he said, “to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies — and that’s what this is, it’s a public monopoly.”

He said the key is to put “real performance measures with some competition, which is why I like charter schools.”

Cuomo said he will push a plan that includes more incentives — and sanctions — that “make it a more rigorous evaluation system.”

Cuomo expects fierce opposition from the state’s teachers, who are already upset with him and have refused to endorse his re-election bid.

“The teachers don’t want to do the evaluations and they don’t want to do rigorous evaluations — I get it,” Cuomo said. “I feel exactly opposite.”

The teachers don’t want to do the evaluations and they don’t want to do rigorous evaluations — I get it.
Cuomo in 2012 won enactment of a new system tying teacher performance to the Common Core curriculum testing results.

The implementation of some of those standards was delayed for two years earlier this year in recognition of the sloppy roll-out of the Common Core program.

Cuomo accused teachers of having tried to torpedo the Common Core curriculum in fighting the evaluation standards — and expects they will again.

“They will be using it the way they used it, I believe — to get the parents upset last year about this entire Common Core agenda,” he said.

On other matters, Cuomo refused to say whether he or members of his administration have been subpoenaed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who is probing the governor’s handling of his anti-corruption commission.

“Call Mr. Preet Bharara and ask him about his investigation,” Cuomo demurred.


U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is investigating the governor's handling of his anti-corruption commission.