Education Sector's Tom Toch sits down with former NYC Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz (D-Manhattan) for a Q+A on what she learned after 125 hearings as chair of the council's Education Committee, as well as what she plans to do with what she learned in the charter school she is starting that will open in Harlem this summer.

Among the topics she covers:

-- Why Democratic candidates for political office are supposed to pretend that everything is hunky-dorey in education.
-- Why teachers unions should be fighting for issues like maternity leave, better parking, differential pay, and photocopiers in schools that actually work.
-- Why it is radically premature to celebrate any success in NYC schools under mayoral control.
-- Why she is even more critical of the teachers union contract now that she is trying to start an innovative new charter school in Harlem.
-- And what her political future plans include.

AFTERTHOUGHT: This story from the other day's NY Times kind of tells you how far things have fallen on the Education Committee since Moskowitz' departure from the council at the end of December. Not a lot of focus there these days.