The new Campaign for Fiscal Equity is threatening to sue the state for $5 billion in unfunded aid. (Times)
Almost all students who attend selective high schools came from selective middle schools as well. (Post)
Student surveys aren’t likely to be part of New York City’s evaluation plan this year. (GothamSchools)
Uncertainty hangs over the city’s timeline for submitting and implementing the plan. (GothamSchools)
A Bronx school facing closure enrolls 950 students whose top choice was elsewhere. (Riverdale Press)
Local officials approved a plan to rezone some of Park Slope’s popular zoned schools. (PS Patch)
High-priced tutors basically do the work for some students at top schools, teachers and tutors say. (Post)
Online public schools spend millions in advertising to attract students to enroll in classes. (USA Today)
A chain-wielding parent was arrested at a troubled high school after he threatened staff. (Post)
A newly reopened Queens school held students in an auditorium that should have been closed. (Post)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002397245457 Mary Conway-Spiegel
Re: Campaign For Fiscal Equity. Do our youth see the money? Does the per pupil funding touted by Albany and NYC as the highest in the nation actually land on a child’s desk? No.
No one is curious, cares, writes about or investigates this issue.
From what I can tell as the parent of children attending public schools in NYC money is spent on: Standardized Testing, Technology/ARIS, Remote/Online Learning Contracts/Programming, Teacher Evaluations, Outside Contractors hired by DOE as middle management, etc.
Larry Littlefield
“From what I can tell as the parent of children attending public schools in NYC money is spent on: Standardized Testing, Technology/ARIS, Remote/Online Learning Contracts/Programming, Teacher Evaluations, Outside Contractors hired by DOE as middle management, etc.”
Are you willing to look at a spreadsheet that tells you where NYC’s spending goes, relative to the U.S. average, based on the “common core of data” compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau? It goes to the retired, with the cost high due to retroactive pension enhancements and massive for the next 20 years because the cost has been denied and unfunded for a decade, leaving the pensions hugely underfunded.
You may be able to read this post, explaining where the data came from and how it has been compiled, because Room Eight is having troubles. Just keep trying.
By the way, I wonder what additional pension enhancements are being sought with the additional money.
A retroactive increase for those retired and about to retire to 3 percent multipled by the years of service? A retirement “incentive” allowing full retirement at age 50? Twenty and out, to provide “fairness” compared with the police officers and firefighters?
I’m sure they will say the additional money is to be used to improve schools, until funding is actually increased again. They certainly didn’t say what it would be used for last time. This time, I won’t be fooled again.
Jim Devor
It is wholly mind boggling that throughout the entire ordeal, GothamSchools has been utterly disinterested in the Park Slope rezoning. That complacency is made even more apparent by its citation to the Park Slope Patch rather than the coverage in the NYT.
While GothamSchools has the right to set its own editorial priorities, it is gob smacking amazing that it has ignored the under reported story that the DOE relented on its anti-diversity policy and agreed to a Targeted Admissions plan giving ELLs and Title I children priority in getting into the new PS 133 located in Boerum Hill/Prospect Heights. Maybe GothamSchools staff really believe that successful struggles by local parents to enhance diversity in NYC schools is unworthy of coverage. If so, it should be ashamed of itself.
Tim
Sure, compared to the Times’s coverage, the optics in the Patch piece aren’t great, what with the quotes from several local parents who aren’t happy with how the process worked and/or the result, plus the unvarnished commentary from one of your fellow council members.
On the other hand, count your blessings. They didn’t go so far as to dig further into the claim that the new zones are good for diversity, a claim that verges on the risible when one takes a look at the new 321 and 107 maps. Already two of the least economically diverse elementary zones in the city, you’ll now have to travel to places like New Canaan, Far Hills, or Bronxville to find schools with comparably low numbers of FRLP kids. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it hardly makes ‘diversity’ the first word that springs to mind.
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