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May 31, 2011

Rise & Shine: Teacher eval standoff could hold up other reforms

by Philissa Cramer, at 6:50 am

News from New York City:

  • The city could lose $44 million for needy schools if it can’t make a teacher eval deal. (NY1, Daily News)
  • Some parents say schools call children’s services on them to retaliate for complaints. (Daily News)
  • The city has fined 10 teachers for inappropriate comments about gender and race. (Post, Daily News)
  • Michael Goodwin: Many teachers have written to me to share evidence of cheating in their schools. (Post)
  • The street in front of Murrow HS has been renamed for the school’s longtime principal. (Daily News)
  • Controversial principal Andrew Buck used DOE supplies to ask parents for tenure support. (Daily News)
  • Two charter high schools run by New Visions are among those that might not open. (Daily News)
  • Two months into his chancellorship, Dennis Walcott is keeping a blistering pace. (WNYC)
  • Students who were shut out of city high schools at first found out last week where they’ll go. (Times)
  • David Einhorn, the man who might take over the Mets, is a big charter school supporter. (Post)
  • One of the DOE’s food suppliers bought a lot of applesauce from China last year. (Crain’s NY)
  • Tribeca parents are upset that some kindergartners are assigned to a Chinatown school. (Tribeca Trib)
  • Parents have lost hope after their Bronx charter school was ordered closed after one year. (Daily News)
  • Eric Grannis, charter board member & Eva Moskowitz’s husband: Charters should integrate. (Daily News)
  • Charter school parents rallied against the NAACP. (GothamSchools, Daily News, CNN)
  • The Daily News praises a charter school parent for condemning both the NAACP and UFT.

And beyond:

  • A proposed state law would require those attacking school budgets to identify themselves. (Times-Union)
  • As Detroit turns more schools into charters, some wonder if the district will survive at all. (Free Press)
  • Los Angeles’s new schools chief, John Deasy, aims to start an anti-poverty nonprofit. (Bloomberg)
  • Los Angeles is going to start donating uneaten school lunches to hunger nonprofits. (L.A. Times)
  • Some states are considering pushing back age cutoffs so children are 5 in kindergarten. (Times)
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  • rf

    About the Tribeca parents worried about their kids attending PS130: what fools! PS130 is a great, great school for every child. We are so lucky that my daughter got a Kindergarten seat there in 2001. It’s a very large school, but it’s a wonderful community where every child is recognized and encouraged to learn and thrive.

  • Michael M. (parent still)

    Muppet News Flash:
    Lots of complaints STILL about the CEC elections.
    Reports of selectors still unable to log in to vote are rampant.
    What, do we need another week extension?
    Sheesh.

  • Michael Fiorillo

    Grannis’ piece in the Daily News is nothing more than transparent attempt to justify his wife’s invasion of the Brandeis HS building on the Upper West Side. In other words, the usual charter operator’s dissembling and deceptive use of civil rights rhetoric in service of privatization.

  • John G

    This comment is NOT in any way meant to take away from the serious infraction of saying something unteacherlylike in front of students, but typically, some of those lesser violations (the ones resulting in only a letter to file or to that plus sensitivity training) are kept confidential. I’m not sure if this is per union agreement or law or just DOE policy, but usually it is the case.

    It is at least a little interesting to know how the DOE came to release the names and other information of the teachers who committed these violations.

  • Philip Nobile

    OEO played the race card in my case: the investigator substantiated that I used the word Negroes. He found that even if I was repeating the word in answer to a black teacher’s question with “Negroes” in it, I was guilty of a racist remark. I was charged and tried for this offense. I went pro se and convinced the Arbitrator to toss out the phony accusation. He cited the Supreme Court in my favor against the race card players in OEO  and at Tweed.

  • LornaDuune

    This web site has taken a dive!  Guess there’s not much going on.  Welcome June, July, August.

  • Ellen

    Controversial principal….passes the buck one more time!  Where’s the righteous anger from the Chancellor?  the Mayor?  What, pricipals are off limits but teachers are skewered at every turn?  Hmmm, what deal did the CSA make to keep the piece?

  • Questioning Person

    When are the 2011 test scores in Math and ELA expected to be released? Especially given this new teacher evaluation measure. Does anybody have a link or knowledge?

  • Questioning Person

    When are the 2011 test scores in Math and ELA expected to be released? Especially given this new teacher evaluation measure. Does anybody have a link or knowledge?

  • Susie

    Is this Goodwin’s first day at the rodeo?  Cheating is rampant – especially in the elementary schools.  There are no outside proctors for the ela or math tests.  Eclas is a sham.  Pass the reading level but fail the writing, spelling, sight words and vocabulary every year.  Just make sure the reading level allows promotion.  If you can’t get the results – give it to another teacher to do.

  • I noticed that…

    The city could lose $44 million!  What about the millions they’ve lost on other corrupted, scam-running, no-bid (but steal as much) contracts?!  City-Time lost more than $44 million; it was $700 million.  Yet, no one questions that or worries about losing that.  I guess it’s okay to lose that much money when it’s corruption with all its scam-dog millionaires.

  • Ralph

    Agreed.  I guarantee the cost to administer these tests will be greater than that 44 million within a few years. 

  • I also noticed that

    Gotham Schools holding a knife to teachers. Try blasting your funders!

  • Michael M. (parent still)

    Or the $600M even the ComPost says has gone unclaimed:

    “The city has failed to collect nearly $600 million in federal
    reimbursement for special-education services such as speech, physical
    therapy and counseling over the last six years, The Post has learned.

    As budget cuts threaten teacher layoffs, the Department of Education
    has instead shelled out millions more in local-taxpayer dollars for the
    student services, which cost $1.2 billion last year.

    The city
    collected just $8.5 million in steadily dwindling Medicaid reimbursement
    for special-ed services last fiscal year and zero the year before — a
    steep drop from the $120 million it received in 2003, according to the
    Independent Budget Office.”

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/city_flubs_special_ed_fed_funding_ZCe9dL7TZ5N4x590V1KmAI#ixzz1KlQv3Lvc

  • http://www.queensteacher2.blogspot.com Queens Teacher

    What a biased site. You’ve lost al credibility.

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