The test scores carry higher stakes this year because many districts are using them to rate teachers. (AP)
The city’s deputy chancellor for students with special needs is retiring. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook)
A family says it will sue over P.S. 197′s handling of an autistic kindergartener’s tantrum. (Daily News)
A school-board fight in Jersey City, N.J., has turned into a showdown between mayoral supporters. (WSJ)
Brooklyn’s I.S. 318, a middle school, won a national high school chess championship. (SchoolBook)
Students at LaGuardia High School were offered grief counseling after a teacher was killed. (NY1)
An ex-teacher at a private school was charged with having sexual relations with a student. (Times, AP)
Kindergarten waiting lists are longer at perennially overcrowded Queens schools this year. (Daily News)
reality-based educator
I noticed that GS forgot to link to the Times story about the Center for Economic Opportunity study that showed the number of people living in poverty increasing by 100,000 in NYC last year.
More than one in four children are living in poverty.
21% of the city live under the poverty line.
Another 12.4% live at near poverty.
So over 1/3 of the people in this city live either at or below the poverty line.
Any connection between that and the city’s schools?
How is it that a reporter, not someone attached to the school system, can pinpoint the issue of overwhelming need at these closing schools and the educrats at the DOE can only say, we’re trying…. not succeeding after ten tumultous years, but trying. How can they claim respect from the parents and students in NYC when all they can do is the same thing over and over and over again.
SickofBloomberg
Evidently the State Senate Republicans of new York have forgotten that they live in a democracy. What gives Mr. Skelos the idea that he has the right to not even consider legislation based on his personal views?
Also, they seem to need a refresher in the definition of hypocrisy. The current system of mayoral control has removed all accountability from the mayor, the chancellor and the DOE. Their false and manipulated statistics notwithstanding, mayoral control is a complete and true failure.
Larry Littlefield
“Their false and manipulated statistics notwithstanding, mayoral control is a complete and true failure.”
By the statistics that matter, it is a huge success. Taxes are up. School spending has soared, and now vastly exceeds the average per student for either the suburbs or New Jersey, and has left the U.S. average in the dust. And what did New Yorkers get for their sacrifices? Earlier teacher retirement on better terms, even though NYC teachers already had a better retirement deal than most of them.
Isn’t that what you wanted? Getting more, providing less, and being completely ungrateful? Best Mayor for the UFT since Lindsay!
So What
Unions gave$85000–so what Bloomberg has spent untold Millions to promote his agendas including paying op-ed repirters $500,000/each as per NY Times
Mab
I don’t know if its possible but you have to get over failing gym in first grade.
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