Talk Out of School

A Conversation with Susan Edelman - Veteran NYC News Reporter

Episode Summary

Daniel sits down to chat with long-time veteran news reporter, Sue Edelman, about her career covering the most significant stories and controversies in New York City public schools for over a quarter of a century. We discussed her stories especially regarding NYC Department of Education corruption and waste during the Giuliani, Bloomberg, De Blasio, and Adams administrations.

Episode Notes

Sue's archive of articles at the New York Post: https://nypost.com/author/susan-edelman/

The FOIL lawsuit memo: https://www.classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NYP-lawsuit-FOIL-memo-of-law.pdf

Some of the more recent stories we covered in the broadcast:

- NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks, Eric Adams put each other’s girlfriends in top posts

- Chancellor David Banks pumps up DOE bureaucracy amid budget cuts to schools

- NYC principal and cronies secretly demand steep rent from Dominican teachers