As the NYC DOE's chief lawyer, Liz Vladeck stopped Chancellor Kamar Samuels from answering questions at a City Council hearing about his involvement in procurement violations when he was a Manhattan superintendent. "What was your role?" @EricDinowitzNYC asked Samuels about no-bid contracts awarded to a non-DOE vendor. “We are not going to comment on questions involving law enforcement,” Vladeck interjected, directing Samuels, now under investgation, not to reply. substack.com/home/post/p-200…

A hero teacher tackled and wrestled with the teen shooter who barged into her classroom, likely saving lives before a dad killed the gunman. facebook.com/KCRA3/posts/a-t…

Brooklyn's P.S. 307, where Nikole Hannah-Jones regrettably sent her daughter, gets rave reviews from parents today, despite persistently low reading and math scores with one in four students deemed proficient. The new principal is “a very big upgrade” over the prior one, described by Hannah-Jones as ineffective, a mom told @matt_barnum .

Meghan Mulgrew, daughter of teachers union prez Mike Mulgrew, used personal texts to discuss issues as senior adviser at @NYCDCAS because she "wished to keep the communications private," a co-worker said. “Hey didn’t want this in teams,” Mulgrew began a message, referring to Microsoft Teams, which archives all content as official records. Such messages by Mulgrew and other DCAS managers appear to violate rules meant to ensure that discussions of city business are preserved as official records subject to public disclosure, @THECITYNY reports.

"This is retaliation." Less than 3 hours after this article posted, SCI's first deputy commissioner, Daniel Schlachet, summoned whistleblower Richard Marin to a disciplinary conference. The stated purpose: to address "newly revealed information" on charges already brought against Marin, a computer systems manager, after he accused agency officials of covering up a stockpile of ammo and giving it away to staff investigators.