At Explore Charter, one of the city’s many segregated schools, engaging with race is a challenge. (Times)
State inspections found that some struggling schools lack basic supplies such as books and paper. (Post)
Emails the UFT requested show Joel Klein was close to charter schools. (Daily News, NY1, SchoolBook)
UFT President Michael Mulgrew criticized the city’s school policies at a union conference. (NY1, AP)
Mayor Bloomberg again criticized parents for not caring about their children’s education. (Daily News)
P.S. 276 in Manhattan suggested that waitlisted families try applying to a private kindergarten. (Post)
Parents in Prospect Heights are worried about the arrival of a charter transfer high school. (Daily News)
Several school workers have left the system after engaging inappropriately with students. (Daily News)
A Queens City Council member explains her bill to change how teacher salaries are billed. (Daily News)
Locke High School in Los Angeles, which Green Dot runs, is doing better but still not well. (L.A. Times)
The nun who runs Brooklyn’s all-girls Fontbonne Hall Academy is a relic of an earlier time. (Times)
Elsewhere in the state, school budgets enacted under a new property tax cap are going to voters. (WSJ)
Some independent schools are embracing technology, and some are eschewing it. (Washington Post)
Noryeln
I sure hope that overweight billionaire won’t feel hurt by Joel’s comments and stop sending money. It might clog up then pipeline of money and then where would Eva be…penniless? wait no, that’s not true, the schools would be penniless, her salary is guaranteed
Inside Schools
Cluster 04 NETWORK with Terry Byam as its leader —— JOKE!!!
Losing credibility as their own principal at Bronxdale High School is still in place after parents, students, and staff have expressed their feelings. Cluster 04 is a JOKE!!!
Ellen
Jeez Louise even the Parent Coordinaotrs are in on the fix……recommend private schools! Well you can bet that is where the next Charter School will be located. The pack of hyenas is circling the weakest elephant
Michael Fiorillo
Re: NY Times article on the resegregation of the schools:
So, charter schools, the purported vehicle for “The Civil Rights Movement of Our Time,” are shown to be accelerating educational apartheid.
Clearly, teachers and their unions must be at fault.
Guest
I wonder whether school are more or less integrated along socioeconomic lines than they are along racial lines. I could imagine the title of that article being “why don’t we have any rich kids?”
On the anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Ed, D14 in Williamsburg Brooklyn is facing the flip side of segregation through two proposed charter schools designed for white middle class families. These proposed schools are poor copies of our neighborhood public schools, but are designed to siphon white middle class families away from their neighborhood public schools. The net result will be a resegregation of our public schools and the assurance that the schools in our most racially and socio-economically diverse areas remain segregated. D14 has NINE magnet schools! We have an equitable and sustainable model for school choice in D14. Please sign the petition at the end of the post. We want our kids in class together.http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2012/05/citizens-of-world-charter-parent-choice.html
Lori
And don’t socioeconomic lines and racial lines surprisingly similar?
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