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February 13, 2013

Remainders: City gives space one school asked for to another

by Philissa Cramer, at 8:21 pm

Jacqueline Torres (standing) and other TD Bank employees taught students at the Mott Haven Academy Charter School about money management on Tuesday. (Photo: Melissa Fox) [Send us photos from your school, too!

  • A charter school is moving into space where an uptown elementary school wanted to expand. (DNAInfo)
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  • Some school districts are allowing families to homeschool gifted students for part of the day. (Scholastic)
  • A teacher says his distributed scoring experience doesn’t bode well for students. (Chaz’s School Daze)
  • Here’s a detailed rundown and analysis of President Obama’s education proposals. (Politics K-12)
  • The principal of P-Tech, the Brooklyn school with a State of the Union shout-out, responds. (SchoolBook)
  • The “parent trigger” worked in Los Angeles, the first time the process didn’t cause conflict. (Hechinger)
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  • Pogue

    Of course the charter school was given space, it has an opportunity for future educational product profits, hinders the real public schools, and undermines/weakens teachers’ unions.

    What more do you expect from an anti-public education, anti-public school child, anti-public school teacher…mayor?

    Profits and Union-Busting First. Always.

  • Jules

    The “neighborhood school” does not actually serve the community. A majority of their students are from the west side. Their population in no way reflects the community. Meanwhile, the charter has a long (over 50 year) legacy in the community, serves East Harlem almost exclusively, has amazing attrition rates, and gives true preference and service to SPED and ELL students.

  • philip nobile

    To Chaz re post on distributive scoring:
    Teachers and principals are notorious cheaters with Regents. You know that. Everybody knows that. Extramural grading is the only way to stop the crime spree. You make good points re the benefit of totally blind grading and the exceptional circumstances re ESL and Special Ed students. But you should recognize the greater good of test security reforms.

  • http://twitter.com/BNiche B

    I can understand all that, but does it give the DOE the right to outright lie to the parents of Central Park East II? The e-mail was quoted in the article below.

    “Parents are also angry that the move comes months after Walcott said in an email to a Central Park East II parent that he understood the desire for a progressive middle school, but there was just no space for one.”
    http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130213/east-harlem/a-grade-public-school-loses-out-charter-school-for-space-harlem#ixzz2KsscaZPw

    To state that there was no room for a middle school, but then reverse that decision for a charter school (especially with the Castle Bridge/KIPP Washington Heights issue also addressed in the article)? That’s gotta be a kick in the teeth.

    Also, maybe it wasn’t clear for me, but the actual charter school is relatively new. The Tutorial Program (via their academic-based after-school programs) has been around for 50 years.

  • guest

    Please know that you insult all of us who are honest when you don’t state “some” and imply all. I never cheated and would never cheat for anyone. I work with people who don’t cheat. In fact, when a new teacher to the school tried to grade a certain way the rest of the department would not continue until the situation was corrected. (That teacher is not in our school any more.)

    MOST teachers are honest. I know you had problems, but don’t make everyone guilty.

    Thank you.

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