Columbus High School wants to avoid its planned closure by becoming a charter school. (Post)
A writer for the teachers union newspaper says he was fired for trying to unionize workers. (Daily News)
The city says discarded school desks should have been reused, not discarded. (Post)
The principal of a Brooklyn school was chastised for letting teachers drink at prom. (Daily News)
For the first time, the city is handing out summer lunches via food trucks. (NY1)
The city’s spending on homeless youth is way up. (Post)
A rep of the conservative Manhattan Institute says city schools are better, despite lower scores. (Post)
After cutting its staff size by 10 percent, Yonkers is now cutting its curriculum and programs, too. (Times)
Half of Chicago’s charter schools are operating at a fiscal deficit. (Times)
Pogue
The city is talking out of the other side of its mouth in regards to “desks should have been reused”. When Gates came in with all that money and high schools were broken down, perfectly good desks, chairs, textbooks, etc. were thrown out throughout the city. Currently, it also happens when charters cram their way into public school space. This would have been a big story on the past, but you know how pro-mayoral control journalism is nowadays.
Makes me think of …
That weird prom story happened TWO proms ago, not this past June. It’s not NEWs. It’s more like ….
… hey is there a word for old news? I mean instead of just saying ‘old news’? That seems kind of boring and uncapturing to me.
You know, something to show that a story is old and has nothing to do with the events that are CURRENTLY happening? Having nothing to do with our lives today? Nothing to do with our city discourse today?
Sex sells. These stories attract eyeballs so the media, and websites like this one, keep re-reporting them. This makes people think that it’s happening way more than it really is.
Wow, good thing Soet is not a teacher then he’ll really be in trouble.
recycled new
Recycled news might be the word you’re looking for.
Akademos
RE: A rep of the conservative Manhattan Institute says city schools are better, despite lower scores. (Post)
Of course there were gains if you compare NYC schools from 2002-2003 to 2009-2010. The BoE was gutted, dead wood and corrupt officials hacked out; many of the very worst schools were closed, and all schools were put under increasing pressure, like never before, to perform on exams. This was a huge shake-up, some of it very positive at first. The KEY QUESTION is what should have been done 4 or 5 years ago and what should be done now? After that initial shake-up, much of the pressure has been anti-educational and deleterious, and many of the gains have come with huge collateral damage: overcrowding, neglect, disaffection among excellent staff, students, and parents, degradation of education, denigration of teachers and schools, fraud, etc. Inordinately high pressure in general brings results at first, followed by diminished capacity, degrees of burnout, disaffection, and then degrees of resistance. Bloomberg and Klein don’t have a clue how to even guess at an answer to that KEY QUESTION. They both should read Diane Ravitch’s book and finally learn something beyond their dumb corporate management methods, which helped clean up blatant dysfunction and corruption in education but can now do little else other than further damage.
Peter
There r only a handful of conversion charter schools in the city, the reason, the funding formula makes them barely sustainable … teachers remain in TRS and the full pension retiree health benefits must be funded, new charter schools have no obligation to provide a pension.
Columbus deserves a chance … hope the DOE and the SED allow them to give it a try.
What is the purpose of a UNION if not to protect all of the members that they represent. This is exactly what Jim Callaghan, investigative reporter for the New York Teacher, fought to do each and every day. His termination of employment from the UFT is a great loss to all of us who work each and day fighting to survive in a school system that treats us with disrespect, disregard, and disdain. With every corner that he turned and with each new day he was confronted with stories of abused members who expected their UNION to be there to listen and to fight with every ounce of energy to protect them and to make sure that they were treated in the manner in which all of us expect and should demand. We would want nothing less and Jim was, and is, that type of person. He reported truth and fought for justice for all of us. His qualities and his passion should be the passion of all of us for that is what we call THE UNION.
Kelly
How can a principal NOT KNOW that chaperones aren’t allowed to drink? Why on earth would that be allowed?! Also… the teacher caught kissing a student had been found, in a previous investigation, to have had sex with a student? How was that teacher still working? Weird story, indeed.
Peter
your confused, it’s actually a pilot for a new reality show on MTV
“My big problem with the rollout of the Common Core is that, if some teachers hadn't read this article, they might have felt like they were the only ones confused about the CCS rollout too.”
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