by Deborah Quinn | Jul 1, 2010 | Education, NYC
DOEUFTDOEUFTDOEUFT isn’t some strange Dutch word or the name of a South African soccer player. It’s a nonsense word that I think perfectly sums up the state of public school education in NYC: an indecipherable log-jammed system. Here’s the latest...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 7, 2009 | Education, food, NYC
The other day on the playground, a mommy friend said, “did you hear? Bloomberg banned bake sales in the schools.” I thought she was kidding–we’d beeen the PTA Co-Presidents last year, and bake sales had been an ongoing aggravation: when...