The Wall Street Journal has an article about how the city is changing the teaching pool by either buying out teachers or getting rid of them. This cost cutting measure is usually set for older teachers who are at the higher pay grade. After years of trying to oust...
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Thursday that an infusion of almost half a billion dollars from the settlement over the CityTimepayroll scandal would enable New York to fill more than 2,500 teaching positions that were to be eliminated in the budget for the coming fiscal...
In what is possibly the worst move the United Federation Of Teachers can do, NY1 implies that the UFT might not help teachers find new placements in turn around/closing schools. This causes a higher competition rate and wage cutting tactics to get teachers in our...
Over at gothamschools.org, a report has come out over an indictment over the CEO of charter school shifting money. Unregulated money management in our schools are never the answer, and those that suffer are just the kids. The founder of a moribund chain of Brooklyn charter...
Gothamschools.org has an article about turmoil in NYC. Walcott has said that turnaround schools are happening without federal funding. This is going to cost NYC much of the DOE funding and therefore lower the budget. When members of the Panel for Educational Policy vote...
New York Times has an article about how certain Texas schools are so cash strapped that they have stopped providing essential services such as bussing students. HUTTO, Tex. — School buses passed by 16-year-old Aubrey Sandifer as he walked home one recent afternoon in...
NY times has an interesting article about how charter schools are reducing overall education budget in New York New York City’s Education Department will spend $51 million to open more than two dozen new charter schools next year, according to a report released on Thursday...
insideschools.org has an interesting trend in NYC public schools to maintain their budgets and performance metrics by deny entry for special needs students "Special needs children need not apply." There was no sign hanging on the main office at PS 289 in Bedford-Stuyvesant...
NY1 has an interesting article about NYC budget crisis and education The Department of Education played an unusually small role in the Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget announcement on Thursday, but the real situation may be more complex than what the mayor let on. NY1's...
The Post has an article about Bloomberg's views of the UFT and lets just say...it isn't good The United Federation of Teachers could care less if the Big Apple loses millions in state aid because of the stalemate in creating a teacher-evaluation program, Mayor Bloomberg...
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