NY Daily News has an article about the recent soda ban and child obesity. Most teachers are suggesting that we bring back mandatory physical education. City Council members Monday grilled the city’s health commissioner over Mayor Bloomberg’s planned supersized-soda...
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...
The NY Daily News has an article about how NY city schools are the most segregated school district in the US Black and Latino students are nearly four times more likely than their white and Asian peers to be enrolled in the city’s lowest-performing high schools, a new study...
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...
NY Times has an article about how the UFT is suing the Department Of Education to obtain emails about charter schools and their relationships with certain members of the DOE The United Federation of Teachers filed suit in state Supreme Court on Tuesday to force the...
New York Times has an interesting article about how New York City is planning on closing and opening schools so that they can be turned around. Basically its reopening closed schools With only three months left until the end of the school year, city education officials are...
Gothamschools.org has an article about how during all this hoopla about new teacher evaluations, that certain council members will stand by teachers and put their support where it counts! The best antidote to teacher-bashing, according to City Councilman Fernando Cabrera, is...
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the Liu's mayoral race and his thoughts on education. New York City Comptroller John Liu accused City Council Speaker Christine Quinn of failing to deliver a bold vision for improving education during her State of the City...
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 interesting article about New York City's dismay about the routine of firing bad teachers They’ve slapped around students, ripped off taxpayers and boozed it up in the classroom — and they’re all still employed as city public-school teachers. A review...
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