For the president to promise 100,000 new teachers without speaking of new school buildings made no sense, Mrs. Gomolka said.
Yet she struck a more conciliatory tone on other topics, saying, for example, that she believed it was sometimes permissible to place charter schools inside traditional school buildings without the approval of local school boards.
According to the TobbaccoFreeCT.com Web site, smoking is prohibited in all areas of public school buildings, without exception, while school is in session or student activities are taking place.
"Sometimes they come, sometimes they don't come," said Roy Moscowitz, the special counsel for District 2, where 9 of 31 school buildings are without custodians.
Assuming you've watched the longer of the two videos, you've seen Ben spell out how many problems - problems that cannot be solved without additional funds, like rebuilding school buildings around the country, some of which are 100 years old - could be solved with the money saved by reducing our nuclear stockpiles.
If Mr. de Blasio establishes impediments to charter schools, such as not permitting joint use of school buildings or requiring rental payments, there will, without doubt, be fewer charter schools.
However, since the current policy does not allow cellphones in school buildings at all, students must therefore be without phones even when they are not at school.
Given the growing criticism, districts that have gotten along without police officers should think twice before deploying them in school buildings.
Without the philanthropy and increased access to rent-free space in public school buildings that charter networks have, independent schools have less money to work with and less clout.
