The Department Of Education and the Teacher's Union are clashing against new rules about using standardize test scores for teacher evaluations. The United Federation Of Teachers are looking to set up a law suit. "It's over-weighting something that all of the experts and...
NYC Department of Education has release it's new budget and some parents are up in arms. For the upcoming school year, 155 kindergarten schools have waitlists for next year, compared with 28 schools in 2009. That is 3,193 children, up from 474. The DOE has been quite relaxed...
The new model of public schools seem to be the proliferation of Charter Schools (semi private public schools). Most of the public sees it as a god send for their children. Better facilities, better graduation rates, different rules. However what the public doesn't know is...
Governor Cuomo is set to release a revised benefits plan for public city workers. This new plan increases the age for NYC public employees to retire to 65 as well as cut out corruption for pension padding. Teachers who have been in the system planning on retiring now face a...
NYC has many problems with education, especially grading. Students, teachers, and administrators are constantly being evaluated. However, comptroller John Liu says that because metrics are changing so much, schools are being unfairly graded. Education officials use a system...
How can we evaluate education and teachers? Apparently through standardize testing. In a move that is becoming more common, the Department Of Education believes that placing more weight on these tests are a marker for how well teachers perform compared to how students...
At two of the top public high schools in NYC, the Black and Latino population are slowly dwindling. The numbers have slowly declining since 1999 partly due to the cancellation of the Discovery Program that places inner city youth in specialized high schools. What is largely...
Across the country, budgets are being slashed and education seems to be taking the largest hit, and in NYC Mayor Bloomberg plans to cut 6000 education jobs while spending 1 billion on consultants. Teachers and administration want to end the tax cuts to Wall Street to close the...
In what I consider pretty common place, companies are looking at public education to fund their for profit companies. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but when they are stiffing the public school system, the only people who lose are the children. One such company is...
In an unusual step, the Justice Department is investigating For-Profit Schools and their ties with students and debt. Students have been graduating from these schools with massive amounts of debt and very little to show for it Earlier this month, the Justice Department took...
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