The New York Times has an article about schools who are facing budget cuts use money from parents to pay for more staff. At some schools, parent associations pay for part-time music teachers. At others, they pay for lunchroom aides, or library workers who are considered...
Gothamschools.org has an article about the DOE collapse of the charter school offices based on recent backlash. While one tightly organized contingent of the city’s charter school sector prepared to stage a rallyoutside City Hall today, the Department of Education was...
The New York Times has an article about the heating presidential campaign and their views on education Lamenting that millions of American children receive “a third world education,” Mitt Romneyon Wednesday called for poor and disabled students to be able to use...
NY1 has an article about the standardize core that has been proposed for the US. Many schools do not like that there is a national standard curriculum, however some schools have started testing the national curriculum in order to not only save time but to show there...
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...
The city Department of Education’s proposed solutions to this year’s Downtown kindergarten wait lists were shot down by local parents and education activists at Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s Overcrowding Task Force on Monday. The number of students wait-listed at...
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 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 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...
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