Mr. de Blasio contends that Mr. Bloomberg has focused on charter schools to the detriment of traditional public schools, pitting parents against one another and sapping resources that could be used for after-school programs and classes like art and physical education.
As we see during a vitriolic public hearing on Ms. Moskowitz's bid to open a second facility in an unused public school, pitting neighbor against neighbor for the future of their children can be a dangerous strategy.
He was a clerk for a broker on the trading floor, where people buy and sell futures in old-school pits by yelling numbers at each other.
The creation of an unofficial white student union at a public university in Georgia has ignited a debate over whether the organization should be officially ratified by the school, pitting the principles of tolerance against those of free speech.
95% of the schools lack pit latrines and use the bush.
Inspectors' views of schools are pitted against those of students and teachers, with inspectors' "singular voice allowed to dominate", says the study, entitled Detoxifying School Accountability.
Sadly a consultation on relaxing the rules has identified another problem: free schools risk pitting residents opposed to any increase in traffic, noise and litter against parents desperate to secure a decent education for their child.
Acts of terror typically rip apart ordinary days, turn routine trips to work or school into pits of pain and heartache.
The plot concerns a hard-fought race for the school board pitting Bevy Baer, a born-again conservative from the new mega-church, against Wallace Cormier, a burnt-out columnist for the local paper.
Almost half of all schools rely on pit latrines instead of proper toilets.
