Suspensions of the city’s youngest students, ages 4 to 10, are up 76 percent since 2003. (Daily News)
The Department of Education has been told to cut its budget by another 2 percent. (Post, Daily News)
The city withdrew a space-sharing plan that would have displaced PS 32′s autistic students. (Daily News)
Aggrieved Bronx Science teachers are trying new strategies to get rid of their principal. (Riverdale Press)
The state of science instruction and achievement in city schools is not strong. (Gotham Gazette)
The DOE asked PS 22′s chorus to take down a YouTube video rejecting a critic’s apology. (Daily News)
Schools Chancellor Cathie Black and others participated in World Read Aloud Day. (NY1, Daily News)
Students at Queens’ PS 94 raised $1,000 to honor a school social worker’s seeing-eye dog. (Daily News)
Charter schools are replacing John F. Kennedy HS over community objections. (Riverdale Press)
Arne Duncan said schools’ high NCLB fail rate shows the need for changes to the law. (Times)
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker: Teacher tenure rules need to be changed, not abolished. (Daily News)
A merger of two charter school chains would create one of the country’s largest networks. (L.A. Times)
Raleigh, N.C.: We don’t know how many students our old integration plan affected. (News & Observer)
Hershey, Penn., is sending reigning high school champions to a memory tournament in the city. (Times)
Michael M. (parent still)
As of this writing, 68% of DailyNews poll respondents — me included — think the MSNBC critic’s apology was lame.
The DOE should be demanding an apology from MSNBC and the critic, not leaning on the PS 22 chorus to take down the video. Oh-fer-two. Fuggedaboudit.
Tweed likes muzzles. PS 22 rocks. Personally, I’d love it if they would all show up at the 3/23 PEP meeting and do a number about threatening to fire teachers and actually slashing the capital plan. And put THAT on YouTube before the schools go DOWN the tubes.
How about this: MSNBC puts the kids on Cohen’s show.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Sock it to me.
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ Norm
False U ratings = LIFO
Aggrieved Bronx Science teachers are trying new strategies to get rid of their principal. (Riverdale Press)
Choice = less choice
A merger of two charter school chains would create one of the country’s largest networks. (L.A. Times)
choice = no choice
Charter schools are replacing John F. Kennedy HS over community objections. (Riverdale Press)
Comment from former HSA teacher at Ed Notes:
Ex-HSA Teacher has left a new comment on your post “Fear and Loathing at Evil’s Harlem Success Empire …”:
I am a former Harlem Success teacher. Not many people who work/worked for her like her very much. I once made the comment that she is very nice when I first was hired. Two of her closest colleague responded immediately almost in unison, “Eve is not nice!” Over time I realized that there was a lot of political games going on. Another colleague once said to me that he was tired of “being part of a political campaign.” Sending out 15,000 applications for only 400 seats in a school is reprehensible. The money that paid for those mass mailings could have paid the yearly salary of another teacher not to mention the heartache of all those parents who applied but did not get a spot. She does good work trying to give disadvantaged students a quality public school education but at a great cost to staff AND the school’s educational budget! school budget.
Michael Fiorillo
Regarding the Daily News article on huge increases in suspensions of young children in the schools since 2003, overlapping exactly with the Bloomberg regime, I’d like to ask two questions: how is this not an intensification of the school-to-prison pipeline, and what does it say about their purported “civil right movement of out time?”
The reality is, everything they say is a lie, including the words “and” and “the” (apologies to Mary McCarthy).
http://rdsathene.blogspot.com/ rdsathene
New Yorkers need a quick background on Steve “where’s the $51K?” Barr and the real story of his burgoning charter-voucher empire. Bloomberg and Co. are right that Green Dot doesn’t close “failing” schools, they just shut down the ones that effect their bottom line:
Barr’s highly touted “turn around strategies” includes stellar results never mentioned in the school privatization pushing press. For example, Green Dot sports three schools with the lowest 100 APIs in LA County. They also feature five schools in the lowest 35 average SAT scores in the County. So much for the private sector turning things around. (Data courtesy LA Times California Schools Guide http://projects.latimes.com/schools/)
Abject standardized test results and laughable SAT scores aren’t Green Dot’s only claims to fame, they cost the State of California countless more dollars in remediating their so-called “college ready graduates.”
Let’s look at Animo Venice Charter High School. Of the Green Dot students admitted to the CSU system in 2008 67% WERE NOT PROFICIENT IN MATHEMATICS. This is compared to just 49% of the much maligned LAUSD students. Moreover, only 33% of the children graduating the Green Dot corporate factory school were proficient, while children attending public schools comprised a much more respectable 51%. (data courtesy of CSU http://www.asd.calstate.edu/scripts/hsrem08/hsrem08.idc?campus=199683)
It’s amazing that Barr’s discredited privatization bandwagon is rolling into New York City with little opposition given the amount of damage they’ve done in Los Angeles.
Michael Fiorillo
rdsathene,
Unfortunately, one reason Green Dot has not faced more opposition here is because of the deal Randi Weingarten made with Barr and private equity (and for- profit diploma mill owner) honcho Jeffrey Leeds. The union got its dues, the teachers got a contract without tenure or seniority, and the city got more privately-controlled schools funded by the public.
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