NEWS: At school under scrutiny, students offer accounts of cheating
The test was a joke. That’s how several graduates of a Bronx high school under investigation for inflating test and graduation rates have characterized a Regents exam they took nearly two years ago....
View ArticleCOMMUNITY: The Ones Who Stay With Me And What I Try To Give Them
It’s the most challenging students I carry with me long after they’ve moved onto the next grade. The student who threw a desk at me, the one who cursed me out every day, the one who experienced...
View ArticleNEWS: Rise & Shine: Upstate school district opposes its charter school
The Mount Vernon, N.Y., school district is trying to prevent a charter school from opening there. (Times) Long Island City High School wants to fix schedule issues with before- and after-school...
View ArticleNEWS: Remainders: On the higher-poverty future of education reform
The rise of concentrated poverty in major cities could pose a problem for school reform. (Hechinger) Chancellor Walcott said the city schools’ official cell phone ban is here to stay. (SchoolBook) A...
View ArticleNEWS: Before marathon, Walcott visits young milers in name of fitness
Chancellor Dennis Walcott took a break from parent town hall meetings, protests and policy speeches this morning to visit Central Park and greet more than a thousand public school students for a...
View ArticleNEWS: NYPD is urged to be like the DOE and release school safety data
The release of school-by-school suspension tallies earlier this week was a triumph to advocates who spent years pushing the city to make school safety data transparent. But it was only a partial win....
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NEWS: Advocates say they haven’t heard from the DOE’s “chief parent”
This story originally appeared in Spanish in El Diario, which supplied the translation. The city’s school system has a new person in charge of helping the parents of the 1.1 million children in public...
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NEWS: Struggling Brownsville schools call on DOE for more support
Chancellor Dennis Walcott responds to Terrell Tomer's questions at a town hall meeting in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Scores of parents, children, and school staff from District 23 packed the auditorium of...
View ArticleNEWS: Rise & Shine: Students with disabilities suspended more often
Students with disabilities were also suspended disproportionately often, city data show. (Daily News) Mill Basin parents are upset P.S. 236′s principal didn’t tell them about a teacher’s assault....
View ArticleNEWS: Remainders: Progress grade hit for schools with new immigrants
The city’s progress reports give less extra credit if students arrived after eighth grade. (Insideschools) A teacher describes a staffing situation that doesn’t seem good for students. (Chaz’s School...
View ArticleNEWS: Principals say third-party negotiator needed in city contract talks
The union representing New York City public school principals and administrators announced today that it has hit a major roadblock in negotiations for a new contract. Union members received a new...
View ArticleNEWS: City adds high schools, charter schools to possible closure list
Three schools that are getting millions of dollars in federal aid are among 27 schools newly added to the list of schools that could be closed. Department of Education officials announced today that...
View ArticleNEWS: Protesting parent: Stark resource gap divides my kids’ schools
For Natoshia Wheeler, the argument that schools do better when they have more resources is proven every night in her living room. Wheeler has three children in Brownsville schools. Her youngest and...
View ArticleNEWS: Cuomo now taking applications for his mini-Race to the Top
Nine months after he announced a $500 million mini-Race to the Top program, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has released details on how cash-strapped school districts can compete for the funds. Districts will have...
View ArticleCOMMUNITY: On Silence And Confusion
It doesn’t matter what subject you teach; every lesson contains at least one frightening transition. After the teacher presents the day’s new content and gives instructions to the students about the...
View ArticleNEWS: Policy wonk-turned-producer explains new parent activism film
Producers of a new documentary about parent activism say they aim to inspire parents across the country to press for change. The film, “Parent Power,” traces the organizing story that emanated from an...
View ArticleNEWS: Rise & Shine: Big Bronx high schools straining under pressure
Remaining large high schools in the Bronx are struggling with many needy students. (Daily News) Data released for the first time shows city school suspension patterns. (GothamSchools, NY1, AP) The...
View ArticleNEWS: Remainders: P.S. 29 ex-PTA treasurer resolves embezzling saga
The former treasurer of P.S. 29′s PTA pled guilty to embezzling and repaid $50,000. (Patch) An ex-teacher and current occupier went from PEP meetings to “The Colbert Report.” (NYC P.S. Parents) UFT...
View ArticleNEWS: For first time, DOE details school safety, suspension numbers
Principals and superintendents suspended a disproportionally high number of black and special needs students last year, according to data the Department of Education released today to comply with a new...
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NEWS: Smoke, odors prompt evacuation of a Brooklyn school building
Students wait for pick-up outside the P.S. 156/I.S. 392 school building, which was evacuated twice this morning in the wake of reports of a bad-smelling smoke. A Brownsville school campus was evacuated...
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