It wouldn't be New York if it weren't a bit of a media slugfest.? The Daily News story on yesterday's courtroom face-off is worth looking at, just for the picture of union chief Michael Mulgrew holding up a big board, titled, ?The Value-Added Indicator as a Residual Parameter.?
Then, over at the Post, columnist Andrea Peyser weighs in under the ever-so-mikquetoasty headline, ?Union's rotten bid to protect rotten members.???
It's fun:
Enough union lawyers to man an aircraft carrier ? I lost count when I ran out of fingers ? jammed fannies into a standing-room-only courtroom yesterday.
What brought these well-stuffed mouthpieces to a space reserved for important slip-and-fall lawsuits? A plus-size sale at Brooks Brothers? A discount on sesame noodles?
No. Lawyers for the United Federation of Teachers fought like hungry lions to prevent the city from divulging the scores gauging the effectiveness of public-school teachers.
Hungry lions?
?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
