The Daily News says the teachers union’s bid to stop the overhauls shows it doesn’t care about students.
A bill on Gov. Cuomo’s desk requires that “home environment” factor into special ed placements. (WSJ)
The city’s in-progress special education overhaul continues to generate anxiety. (WNYC/SchoolBook)
For the first time, the city released required data about students who did not graduate. (GothamSchools)
The 21 Bronx schools opening this fall have various themes and include replacements. (Daily News)
The Dignity for All Students Act, a new state law that targets bullying, went into effect on Sunday. (NY1)
A novelist whose daughters went to Stuyvesant says the culture pushes smart kids to cheat. (Daily News)
Ginia Bellafante: Sex abuse allegations are revising the histories of some elite city prep schools. (Times)
A prep-school student famously jailed for gun-running graduated from Millennium HS. (Daily News)
The family of a student whose beating by a school administrator was filmed is suing the city. (NY1)
The ultra-competitive exam used to screen students for Chinese universities is being reassessed. (Times)
Five more states received federal No Child Left Behind waivers, bringing the total to 24. (Times)
A program being piloted at three New England prep schools aims to teach girls about finance. (Times)
Mitt Romney’s two big education policy pushes as Massachusetts’s governor fell short. (Boston Globe)
City-based consultants floated a plan to shame a New Orleans school that hired them. (Times-Picayune)
Roma Giudetti
The Schoolbook article on the turnaround debacle is interesting. Why doesn’t The Times use Marc Sternberg’s name? After all he is the education official responsible for the turnaround fiasco. From what I read, the DOE basically chose the wrong turnaround model — one more intent on firing teachers than truly improving schools. Mr. Sternberg was heading the turnaround effort yet his name is rarely mentioned in the reporting of the arbitration ruling. It’s so important to publish teachers names’ with their test scores and it’s so important to hold teachers accountable. Why is it not important to publish Mr. Sternberg’s name (as the person in charge of the lastest Tweed fiasco) and hold him accountable for losing $40 to $60 million dollars in federal funds (depending on whose reporting) for our schools?
Still a Newtown student
Because, to put it frankly, the whole situation is that corrupt. They’re making it such that Steinberg can have his cake and eat it too, so that he can escape with no injury from this sham.
Billionaires for billionaires, and everything for the rich and powerful; it’s as simple as that
Still a Newtown student
Look at this quote from SchoolBook:
“Several analysts said the decision threw an already chaotic situation
into further disarray. Principals at 6 of the 24 schools have already
moved on. There are about 3,000 teaching jobs at stake and some
teachers at the affected schools have already been reapplying for their
positions. Others have moved on to new schools.”
And the mayor wants to prolong it by wanting an appeal?
This is going to be one crazy summer.
Still a Newtown student
By the way, I guess we’ll hear about the mayor’s appeal this afternoon?
Tim
These pieces aren’t directly connected to education, but I thought they were worth a mention:
This “near-shoring” trend is growing and it’s not just limited to the finance, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing sectors. It is becoming a luxury for businesses to be located in or near New York City, not a necessity.
Some food for thought before the next discussion about school budgets and taxes. An intensifying erosion of quality private sector jobs is likely yet another ticking time-bomb for the region.
Mr. Flerporillo
“An intensifying erosion of quality private sector jobs is likely yet another ticking time-bomb for the region.”
This is just more of Bloomberg’s evil at work. The Emperor has long sought to privatize our private sector jobs. Why? So he can line the pockets of Eva Moskowitz and his hedge fund buddies. First he guts the public schools, but his ultimate goal is to reduce the whole of New York City to a smoldering ruin. Of course you won’t read anything about this in the right-wing New York Times — it’s on the take, too. And when’s the last time anybody saw Batman around?
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