{"id":5512,"date":"2009-10-21T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2009-10-21T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T19:59:11","slug":"craft_narratives_at_your_own_peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/craft_narratives_at_your_own_peril.html","title":{"rendered":"Craft Narratives At Your Own Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inasmuch as the mayor has attempted to craft the narrative of his tenure as a triumph over politics of the past vis a vis mayoral control of schools — the results of which relying on tenuous claims of test score success<\/a> — it makes sense to focus on Bill Thompson’s position as school board president. But after the Times actually investigated that role, a fool’s errand as much as anything, Thompson doesn’t come off so badly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

His was a long tenure, and Mr. Bloomberg and his aides heap scorn on it. “A true warrior speaks out and fights for mayoral control,” said Christopher Cerf, a deputy schools chancellor now working for the Bloomberg campaign. “Bill Thompson did none of that.”<\/p>\n

Legislators suggest this criticism is not apt; they were not going to hand over control of the schools until Mr. Giuliani exited. And Mr. Thompson’s epitaph lists accomplishments, including test scores that rose for four years.<\/p>\n

“To bring calm to the circus mattered,” said David C. Bloomfield, the Board of Education’s former general counsel. “To the degree that it was Bill’s job to be a political operative, it was to keep a lid on, and to make sure that the chancellor was able to do his job.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also: Bloomberg For Mayor 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inasmuch as the mayor has attempted to craft the narrative of his tenure as a triumph over politics of the past vis a vis mayoral control of schools — the results of which relying on tenuous claims of test score success — it makes sense to focus on Bill Thompson’s position as school board president. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5514,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions\/5514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}