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...
NY Times has an article about how the NY DOE has lifted the word ban on tests due to sensitivity and or reliability New York City Department of Education officials said late Monday that they were pulling back on a clause in contracts for testing companies that list 50 words...
The Wall Street Journal has an article about how NY State wants to show teacher data, but only to parents and not the general public. This comes after the backlash of making the current evaluations public citing that it was a breach of privacy. A top Albany lawmaker said...
The Wall Street Journal has an article about the newly appointed anti-cheating czar. This comes hot off the heals of many complaints about the relaxed security during exams The state said Tuesday it hired Tina Sciocchetti, an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern...
About a hundred students are heading up to the state capital today to advocate for the DREAM Act. The students, along with advocacy group Make the Road New York, spent the day Monday making T-shirts, food packages and legislative packets. They group will meet with Albany...
Gothamschools has an interesting poll which shows NY parents don't trust the Bloomberg administration in their children's education and interest. New York City residents won’t be appointing Mayor Bloomberg as students’ chief lobbyist any time soon. Nearly twice as...
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...
Politicians behaving badly! Newt has been making the rounds (not for his usual sex romps) but more of what he said about school Janitors. Factcheck.org has the story Newt Gingrich got it wrong when he claimed “an entry-level janitor gets paid twice as much as an...
The New York Post talks about the NAEP's grades on NYC's students and performance. The only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from this week’s release by the National Assessment of Educational Progress: Reading and math achievement by New York City’s students is...
New York scores haven't improved since 2009 according to a recent NAEP scores. That's not saying that much. NY1 has the full story According to numbers released Wednesday by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, math and reading scores among city fourth and...
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