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hrmjustin

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Mon Aug 18, 2014, 10:53 AM Aug 2014

newest endorsement thread.

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In Some Races, PEF Plays It Safe
Liz Benjamin

Much was made last week of the endorsement by PEF, the state’s second-largest public workers union, of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Democratic primary challenger Zephyr Teachout.

The nod was seen both as political muscle flexing by the union’s new president, Susan Kent, and a shot across Cuomo’s bow at a time when his relationship with several public sector unions is strained.

PEF also bucked the institutional Democratic trend and backed former NYC Councilman Oliver Koppell over IDC Leader Jeff Klein, despite the Cuomo-backed deal for Klein and his fellow renegades to abandon the GOP and strike a new deal with the so-called “regular” Democrats in exchange for (among other things) seeing primary challenges to IDC members dropped.

But a full list of PEF’s legislative endorsements provided to CapTon reveals the union wasn’t so politically provocative in all its candidate selections, even opting to sit on the sidelines rather than choose sides in races where incumbents have been charged with wrongdoing.

http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/08/in-some-races-pef-plays-it-safe/

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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
14. UFT, de Blasio & Fari a talk test results
Fri Aug 22, 2014, 10:50 AM
Aug 2014

Stephon Johnson

The results are in for both the New York statewide and New York citywide exams in math and English, and despite some uptick, there’s still much improvement to be made.

On the statewide exams, New York City students made some headway with a 2-percent increase in those passing the reading exam (from 27 percent to 29 percent) and a 4-percent increase in those who passed the math exam (from 30 percent to 34 percent).

http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2014/aug/21/uft-de-blasio-farina-talk-test-results/

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