From Schools Matter: Nine Years Later, with a big media empire to promote your every doing, and people still think the job you're doing an awful job when it comes to schools

After 9 Years of Corporate Reform Schooling, New Yorkers Conclude Bloomberg Has Failed to Improve Education

Even with his own media empire to tout his puffed up edu-exploits, and even with a herd of imported thin-lipped British economists as edu-advisors, and even with a passel of lawyers led by Joel "McChoakumchild" Klein to put a choke hold on the NYC Department of Education, and even with an unending stream of philanthrocapitalist dough to push his pet projects, and even with his own appointed Board to rubber stamp his every edu-whim, and even with billions of his own cash to craft an image and buy the best Madison Avenue PR machine to lead an unending propaganda campaign, the Little Prince just could not pull it off. The business of education as a business just went bust!

According to a new poll that, by the way, mirrors a number of attitudes expressed in the latest PDK poll, 2 out of 3 New Yorkers say Bloomberg has not improved education in the New York City. A big clip from the NYTimes:

New Yorkers are broadly dissatisfied with the quality of their public schools, and most say the city’s school system has stagnated or declined since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took control of it nine years ago, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.

Mr. Bloomberg has made improving the schools a focus of his mayoralty, seizing authority over the bureaucracy, doubling the budget and opening hundreds of additional, small schools. Still, even as his overall approval rating, 45 percent, is at a six-year low, considerably fewer residents — 34 percent — approve of how the mayor is handling education.