NY1 has the story about the Teacher's Union fight with the city and the school closings. The Panel for Educational Policy is expected to vote Thursday night on whether the city can use a federal strategy called "turnaround" to shut down and then improve 26 failing public...
The New York Daily News has an interesting article on how people find that even though the teacher evaluations are flawed, people have mixed reviews on releasing them. New York City voters favored the release of controversial teacher ratings but also believe the numbers are...
The New York Times has an interesting article about Mayor Bloomberg's stance on struggling schools and how they should be closed. A new deal was struck about closing struggling schools The original reason behind Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s plans to close and reopen 33...
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...
Taken from the Daily News Four of the five top Democratic candidates for mayor took to the steps of City Hall Tuesday to criticize the mayor’s school closing policy. As the city moves to close a record 62 schools this year, the Democrats said Mayor Bloomberg needs to...
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...
Things have gotten so dire for the budget of schools that churches are now praying for them. I only see one time to prayer, when things have gotten so bad that you can't turn to anybody else. Really? It's gotten that bad that we have to rely on a higher being? Welcome to...
If Governor Andrew Cuomo angered Mayor Bloomberg by batting off his calls to end seniority-based layoffs, perhaps the governor redeemed himself in the mayor's. Read this article: Cuomo: test scores should play a bigger part in teacher evals...
Andrew Cuomo's proposal for revising the Board of Regents teacher evaluation standards – an issue that has become something of a sticking point as the mayor is threatening to fire thousands of NYC teachers and pushing for the repeal of ... Read this article: Bloomberg...
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