The state education commissioner threatened Friday to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid unless New York City showed it was prepared to put a new teacher-evaluation system in place, ratcheting up pressure on the city a dayafter a deal on new evaluations fell apart.
Earlier this month--just a dayafter settlement talks between Justice and Microsoft fell apart--he reiterated his interest in bundling speech-recognition software into a future version of Windows.
He made a terse public statement outside the Oval Office Friday morning, the dayafter an apparent agreement on the broad outline of a relief bill fell apart.