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City & State: The 2024 Brooklyn Power 100 “The bigwigs in New York City’s most bustling borough”

Still, that lack of sign off [by Brad Lander] “has no legal impact such as sanctions or an enforceable order” under the law, DAVID BLOOMFIELD, a professor of education, law, and public policy at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, wrote in an email. But Lander’s analysis underscores the significant costs of implementing the state’s new class size caps. By Alex Zimmerman Chalkbeat New York https://lnkd.in/enRvkje2

A series of interview questions & answers in City & State “Ask the Experts” column. The following is one excerpt: “In addition to the disruptive demonstrations themselves, ensuing anxiety on the part of students, faculty, and administration is palpable leading, for instance, to Brooklyn College searching faculty cars for hidden contraband and even outsiders supposedly hidden in trunks! This type of extreme reaction, including cops clearing encampments with attendant college and criminal consequences, gives an added sense that campus leadership has lost its ethical and administrative moorings.” DAVID BLOOMFIELD Brooklyn College The Graduate Center, City University of New York Also excellent analysis by my esteemed colleague Prof. Celina Su By Sahalie Donaldson Holly Pretsky https://lnkd.in/eEu5GRBW

Only 10 Black students earned admission to Stuyvesant High School, according to data. In 2023, there were seven students, and 11 students in 2022. “The percentage increase is meaningless. We’re talking about single digit increases. So this is, you know, call it Groundhog Day, call it rinse, repeat. It is just a disaster — for kids, for the system,” DAVID BLOOMFIELD, an education professor at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, said. Bloomfield is among those who have argued that the test, called the #SHSAT, has resulted in the city’s top schools failing to reflect the system’s overall demographics. By Jillian Jorgensen Spectrum News https://lnkd.in/ep6XKStu

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DAVID BLOOMFIELD, an education law professor with Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, believes it was no accident Maron and Sutton were removed simultaneously, and questioned the precedent set for free speech. “He seems to be treating them as similar situations and trying to balance the scales by removing a left wing member and a right wing member,” said Bloomfield. While he did not question Banks’s legal right to remove Maron and Sutton, Bloomfield charged the precedent set is, “precisely what the First Amendment is supposed to protect against, which is the chilling of speech and particularly of political speech.” By Marianna McMurdock The 74 Media https://lnkd.in/enSVpTaU

“The Regents Exams had devolved or descended into months of test prep and rote learning, so it’s a welcome end to that era,” said DAVID BLOOMFIELD, a professor of education law and policy at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. “But what the new era portends is questionable and troubling. It’s not clear from the New York State Education Department’s presentation what New York high schools will look like in the future,” he continued. “Rigorous coursework needs to be required, and there’s nothing in this presentation that assures that will be the case.” By Cayla Bamberger New York Daily News https://lnkd.in/dGAxaPTD