A tentative state budget fills in city school funds lost over teacher evaluations. (GothamSchools, WSJ)
Seven additional educators are under investigation for trying to juke their survey stats. (Daily News)
Bloomberg’s latest picks for the Panel for Educational Policy have charter school ties. (GothamSchools)
A P.S. 183 teacher axed for bribing students said she was punished for not taking gifts. (DNAInfo, Post)
The city has joined with other districts to pool school food buying power. (GothamSchools, Daily News)
Students at M.S. 331 in the Bronx will apply their meditation lessons at the United Nations. (Daily News)
The number of city students taking the private school entrance exam fell by 4 percent this year. (Post)
A Stuyvesant-bound Queens eighth-grader won a city spelling bee for the fourth time. (Daily News)
The head of Tucson’s school district, in turmoil over its Mexican studies program, has resigned. (Times)
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I find it difficult to accept that a principal was not even investigated after a parent admitted -at an open hearing- that it was customary to give cash gifts to staff (in clear violation the department’s conflict of interest rule). Who allows a custom like this to occur? And who chooses not to investigate that person?
But more important; why would a teacher be fired motivating students to do well during a lesson and for allowing a bullied student to eat lunch with her? I’ve read some poor excuses for firing a senior teacher with high salary before, but this one takes the cake.
flerp
The DNAinfo story says that there was an investigation.
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Spending your energies correcting me? Or willfully ignoring the fact that there was evidence of a cash gifts practice that the investigators seemed to ignore? If it’s the second choice, I have to observe that as a parent, you have no concern about that to mention here? Really?
If it’s the first choice, you should know that the evidence of that type of parental testimony should have been enough to launch its own referral to SCI.
flerp
No, you wrote that there was a choice made to not investigate, and I went to the link, and saw that there was an investigation. So I thought it was worth mentioning. I guess technically that would constitute spending my energies to correct you. Nothing personal. Obviously, I don’t know any details about how the investigation was conducted.
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Okay so you ARE interested in what you think is correcting me but -as a parent- not at all interested in a school where a culture of giving cash gifts has prevailed and the teacher who reports that gets fired.
Honestly, man. Where are your priorities?
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