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...
The Dailynews talks about Governor Cuomo's proposal to link aid with teacher evaluation. This is bad news for education all around Albany — Gov. Cuomo may be ready to put the state’s money where his mouth is when it comes to education. The self-proclaimed chief...
New York Times has an interesting article about how NY is in trouble and might loose it's race to the top funding New York is one of three states on the federal government’s watch list because it has not yet complied with the goals it set when applying for financial...
NY1 has an article about how charter schools in NYC still get rooms rent free On Tuesday, city charter schools won a legal battle to share space in public school buildings free of cost. A State Supreme Court Judge denied a preliminary injunction that would have forced...
The Chicago Tribune has an interesting article about how they found 1 million dollars in improper spending. CHICAGO— The inspector general for Chicago Public Schools says retired teachers working as substitutes improperly collected $1.13 million in benefits between 2007 and...
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