We have come to believe that a system allowing parents a choice among schools, if properly organized by
an aggressive central administration, can release energies that only diversity makes available, without sacrificing accountability for the effective education of every child.
And it's not just that: The de Blasio
administration has lied about everything from Lower East Side nursing - home conversions to the city's surging and increasingly
aggressive street population to
Central Park carriage horses to deteriorating public school performance to campaign finance violations to... well, the list is virtually endless.