Edward G. McCabe, Nassau County's administrative judge, teaches business law classes at both Hofstra and Nassau Community College.
He went to McGeorge, the law school at Pacific, where Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, then an appeals-court judge, taught constitutional law.
He's a very conservative judge, teaches at The University of Chicago Law School, and he has written a very penetrating analysis of the current crisis.
Like many former state employees displaced by fighting in the north – civil servants, doctors, nurses and judges – teaching staff have been slow to return to their posts, despite the promise of government bonuses.
There is no reason to assume that money buys us the things that matter to good judging, teaching, or doctoring.
Remember Francis' comment in 2013 about homosexual people: "who am I to judge?" Francis' teaching on the family released last month did not remove the church's judgement that homosexual people are disordered.
Standardized tests tend to measure what matters least about intellectual proficiency, so it makes absolutely no sense to judge curricula, teaching strategies, or the quality of educators or schools on the basis of the results of those tests.
"The PUC is a very large agency with complex responsibilities," says Steven Weissman, a former PUC staff attorney and administrative law judge now teaching public policy at UC Berkeley, who also testified for the city.
