Letters to the Editor
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‘Cheney’s Chance’
Reading your editorial urg ing Vice President Cheney to run for president made me look at my calendar [Editorial, “Cheney’s Chance,” April 4, 2007]. I think I figured it out. Since the Sun doesn’ publish on Sunday, you de cided to print an April Fool’s prank on Wednesday.
JERRY SKURNIK
New York, N.Y
‘Arroyos Back in the Biz’
As a teachers union repre sentative in District Seven between 1970 and 1997, I watched as many Bronx elected officials pillaged the public schools of their bor ough [Oped, “Arroyos Back in the Biz,” April 9, 2007].
From blatantly selling jobs to buying educational programs and evaluation con tracts with kickbacks, school boards were the classic bazaar. Everything was for sale and elected officials re fused to do anything about it: after all, they benefited from the corruption.
As Andy Wolf so accurately describes, licking envelopes, buying tickets for political dinners, and paying obeisance to power brokers was the lingua franca of the Bronx public school scene.
It was only when the board of education’s commissioner of investigations, Ed Stancik, and the UFT president, Sandy Feldman, joined forces that school boards were stripped of their corrupt practices.
The supporters of charter schools must be vigilant as it appears that the same forces that pillaged public schools are beginning to plunge their talons into newly created charter schools.
JOAN GOODMAN
New York, N.Y.
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