Last night’s Panel for Educational Policy meeting reprised conflict over test scores. (NY1)
An all-girls charter high school opened in Albany yesterday, the state’s first. (WNYC)
New Orleans parents want to see more racial diversity now that there is more school choice. (NPR)
Seattle and its teachers might have agreed about using test scores in evaluations. (Seattle Times)
http://www.SpecialEducationMuckraker.com Dee Alpert
Is NYC the only place in NYS where parents, etc. are making a fuss about the new low test scores? NYSED changed the scoring for tests statewide, not just in NYC.
Simply Put
The Children and Parents of NYC Schools have been HAD!
Michael Fiorillo
Dee Alpert,
The re-scoring for the tests may have occurred statewide, but it is in NYC that the mass disenfranchisement of parents has taken place, and where everyone is subjected to the 24/7 bullhorn/echo chamber of media hype for mayoral control of the schools (and the agenda that follows from that).
New York City is seen nationally as the model for the hostile takeover of the public schools, and NYC parents are increasingly responding to what that actually entails for their children. They are realizing that the falsity and political manipulation of the test scores, which were used to support the mayor’s PR narrative, benefits private interests at expense of their children’s education.
To say that only parents in NYC are making a “fuss” comes close to trivializing the issue.
Frank Thomas, DOE spokesman just told me no arrests have been made tonight at PEP despite confrontation between protesters & police earlier. 21 mins ago
RT @leoniehaimson: It's been shown repeatedly that as one schl closes another overwhelmed w/ high needs kids that small schls won't take 26 mins ago
Shael: the suggestion that kids are moved around (to large, struggling high schools) just isn't accurate. 28 mins ago
@SchoolBook: Manhattan rep @PSulliv and mayoral appointee Lisette Nieves get into an argument she tells him to get off his "soapbox” 30 mins ago
Mayoral appointee Lisette nieves chimes in on an increasingly irate @PSulliv she says he's being rude. 31 mins ago
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