Parents submitted 3,800 applications for 538 seats in yesterday’s Achievement First lottery. (Post)
A family who was shut out of Achievement First’s schools has its hopes pinned on other charters. (Post)
Parents whose son did get into an Achievement First school say he’s destined for greatness. (Post)
A conservative think tank says the city’s teacher pension fund is in worse shape than the city says. (NY1)
Nationwide, teacher pension funds are more than $900 billion in the red, the group found. (USA Today)
An NYC superintendent’s son is among tens of thousands of students waitlisted at elite colleges. (Times)
Teachers at Williamsburg Charter High School produce YouTube videos to help their students. (NY1)
The Daily News says legislation to end “last in, first out” layoffs would protect good teachers.
Some school districts in the region are holding weekday proms to cut down on after parties. (Times)
SUNY’s new strategic plan includes a pipeline stretching from pre-K to college. (NY1, GothamSchools)
A 2-year-old was left alone on a daycare school bus for hours. (Post, Times, Daily News)
http://themortonschool.blogspot.com Miss Eyre
I would love to make YouTube videos for my students. Too bad ALL of YouTube is blocked by the DOE.
District 13 parent
So the NYCDOE superintendent’s son who was waitlisted actually attends UNIS, a private school, not a New York City public school. Hmm….
Michael M.
Re huge applicant pools for charters:
I dare say that if traditional public school elementary schools were similarly non-zoned, each annual cohort of our 1.1 million kids would be signing up for each and every PS 234 (Tribeca) out there.
And people would be saying, “100,000 kids applied for 125 seats? We need more such non-charters.”
When used to justify relative popularity of charters relative to TPS’s, it’s an absolutely misleading — if not meaningless — statistic.
I’d be curious how many of the kids zoned for a given charter’s nominal catchment (relative, frequently to the TPS it is co-located with) are applying — and moreover, what Tweed is doing to improve the local TPS.
http://incongressional.com Esteban Rodriguez
The high ratios of applicants to seats is more of a sad referendum about the management of traditional public schools rather than the success of charter schools.
The mayor has always said to “judge him on the schools”. If parents are fleeing them en-masse, the blame should fall on the policies of the Bloomberg administration.
But then again, I would not doubt that the mayor has always planned to give away massive amounts of tax-payer dollars to private educational corporations and fostered the current environment in his quest for “reform”.
Michael M.
With Not-for-you-tube in mind, howzabout CCTV on buses feeding into schools’ offices so we can check for kids left on buses?
Luckily, in this latest case, it wasn’t 95 degrees out.
AND, such video into a DVR could be handy for the forensics in the next protractor attack.
Michael M.
ER,
Kleinberg is like the Captain of the Titanic crowing over how many people want to get on a lifeboat.
That their buds are in the lifeboat biz is yet another angle.
Congratulations to Kathy Pelles’s son for his admissions to Duke and Cornell. (He is wait listed only at the University of Pennsylvania — read the article more carefully, other posters). However, this is NOT education news about the K-12 schools in New York City and does not belong on this website.
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