Comments on: Rise & Shine: Lawsuit seeks to force city to lower class sizes http://gothamschools.org/2010/01/06/rise-and-shine-lawsuit-seeks-to-force-city-to-lower-class-sizes/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: UFT sues DOE… and I get my 29th student « My Life Untranslated http://gothamschools.org/2010/01/06/rise-and-shine-lawsuit-seeks-to-force-city-to-lower-class-sizes/comment-page-1/#comment-251800 UFT sues DOE… and I get my 29th student « My Life Untranslated Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:23:59 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=30155#comment-251800 [...] the funny-enough-to-cry news is the teachers union has just sued the DOE over funds that were supposed to be used to keep class size down! I’m glad they are suing, [...] [...] the funny-enough-to-cry news is the teachers union has just sued the DOE over funds that were supposed to be used to keep class size down! I’m glad they are suing, [...]

]]> By: Catharine http://gothamschools.org/2010/01/06/rise-and-shine-lawsuit-seeks-to-force-city-to-lower-class-sizes/comment-page-1/#comment-251745 Catharine Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:42:05 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=30155#comment-251745 Great article by Marcus Winters in the NY Daily News. I'm glad he pointed out the data from the Hoxby study: "when students who have already been diagnosed as disabled enter a charter school lottery, they are just as likely as other students to win a seat; among those who win a seat, disabled kids are just as likely to enroll, and among those who enroll, special education students are no more likely to return to a traditional public school." I wonder how the union feels about Zeke Vanderhoek's charter school, The Equity Project. Isn't higher pay what they've been asking for all along? TEP even has a professional development structure--partner teaching and mentoring--that many unions would like. But they certainly aren't going to like the extended school day and the requirement that teachers design and lead extracurricular activities. Read a new interview with Vanderhoek here: http://americanedreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/reformer-of-month-zeke-vanderhoek.html Great article by Marcus Winters in the NY Daily News. I’m glad he pointed out the data from the Hoxby study: “when students who have already been diagnosed as disabled enter a charter school lottery, they are just as likely as other students to win a seat; among those who win a seat, disabled kids are just as likely to enroll, and among those who enroll, special education students are no more likely to return to a traditional public school.”

I wonder how the union feels about Zeke Vanderhoek’s charter school, The Equity Project. Isn’t higher pay what they’ve been asking for all along? TEP even has a professional development structure–partner teaching and mentoring–that many unions would like. But they certainly aren’t going to like the extended school day and the requirement that teachers design and lead extracurricular activities.

Read a new interview with Vanderhoek here: http://americanedreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/reformer-of-month-zeke-vanderhoek.html

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