Posts Tagged: Cathie Black
It's Suing Time!
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NYC Won't Release Bloomberg's Emails with Cathie Black

| May 26th, 2011

The mayor's office has twice rejected totally every-day requests to see emails between the mayor's office and Cathie Black, the short-time Schools Chancellor, while she was employed at Hearst Publications (as well as with any other people at Hearst). The reasoning? The documents are exempt from disclosure because they're inter- or intra-agency communications. That's weird, I guess we all own part of Cosmo now? Anyway, now the City is being sued for the emails, quite rightly.

Public Relations
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"It's Time To Put Politics Aside" And Do Bloomberg's Bidding

| November 29th, 2010

"Department of Education spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz wouldn't comment on the legal questions raised by the parents and politicians, but said, 'It's time to put politics aside and recognize that it's in all our kids' interest for Cathie Black to succeed as our next Chancellor.'" —Natalie Ravitz! You are really being grotesque while doing your job! That is the least enlightening, most inexplicably insulting, most negative positioning you could possibly establish for the Department of Education's defense of Cathie Black. Somehow this statement manages to be simultaneously outrageous, dismissive, obscuring and just plain dim. Most likely you are being praised over a lunch right now though. But honestly? Dismissing [...]

Breaking
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Cathie Black Now Not In Charge of Our Children's Future

| April 7th, 2011

And also this morning: Cathie Black is donezo as New York City's schools chancellor. Ms. Black was installed in the position with the caveat that she have a "minder" who had some experience working in the school system; Ms. Black's experience was as a member of the board of Coca-Cola and as president of Hearst Magazines. She began the job on January 1. This is enjoyable: "A NY1-Marist poll released on Monday put Ms. Black’s approval rating at 17 percent, with 23 percent of adults not sure or never having heard of her." We really, really look forward to further details.

WTF
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The Education of Cathie Black

| November 11th, 2010

In short, almost literally no one knew that the chairwoman of Hearst Publications was going to be taking on the post of New York City Schools Chancellor. Not even Gayle King! But good news, I guess. "On Monday, Ms. Black was seen at the Hearst Tower with a thick stack of materials concerning public education." That's excellent, she's learning about public schools before she RUNS ALL OF THEM.

Getting Schooled
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Last Night's Ruckus: The Great Walk-Out on Cathie Black

| February 4th, 2011

Last night in Fort Greene, more than a thousand people came to shout their way through a hearing. They were at the Brooklyn Technical High School to voice rowdy opposition to the shuttering of twelve more New York City public schools. Earlier this week, the city’s Panel for Education Policy—a body separate from the Department of Education, though filled with a majority of Bloomberg appointees—had already voted to close ten schools. So last night, everyone was back for a second helping—and the teachers’ union and its supporters came hungry.

Before the meeting, the union rallied its members along Dekalb Avenue for more than an hour. The union was here [...]

New York City
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Media Industry Perfect Training For Running School System, Apparently

| November 9th, 2010

Today in WTF: "New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein is resigning to join News Corp., ending an eight-year reign at the helm of the nation's largest school system. In his place, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to announce Cathie Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines. She would be the first woman charged with running New York City's 1,500 schools and more than one million students." Did I already say WTF? Because, you know, WTF?