Posts tagged "Headlines"
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:27 am
- The state is recruiting seniors at some high schools to pilot McGraw-Hill’s GED-like exam, for pay. (WSJ)
- Anthony Weiner set out support for co-locations and other school policies. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook)
- The UFT has not yet endorsed a mayoral candidate but has given its nod to 13 others. (GothamSchools)
- Students at Brooklyn’s J.H.S. 278 were arrested for releasing pepper spray in the cafeteria. (Daily News)
- As we reported, some principals are protesting state tests by not using scores in admission. (Daily News)
- The Panel for Educational Policy approved the school bus contracts that spurred the bus strike. (NY1)
- Gonzalez: A teacher and students are working to honor slaves buried in a park near their school. (News)
- A Bronx teacher is suing to get her job back after being fired over remarks that a student reported. (Post)
- A Long Island high school is disciplining students who used Facebook to share test answers. (Post)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 6:52 am
- A Queens 12-year-old committed suicide, citing bullying by I.S. 109 peers as a cause for distress. (Post)
- Chicago’s school board voted to close 49 schools, the most in a single year. (Tribune, Sun-Times, Times)
- City teachers discussed the mayoral candidates at the teachers union’s monthly meeting. (SchoolBook)
- As the UFT endorsement nears, former chief Randi Weingarten backs Bill Thompson. (GothamSchools)
- The latest entrant to the mayoral race, Anthony Weiner, has a spare education record. (GothamSchools)
- An appeals court backed the city’s firing of a teacher who offered good grades for support. (Daily News)
- The heads of City Year New York cite growing up in the Bronx as reasons they lead well. (Daily News)
- Community colleges are getting less federal funding, even as they enroll more students. (Times)
- Boston charter schools have higher test scores but lower graduation rates, a new study funds. (Globe)t
- Leaders in upstate districts where voters rejected school budgets say taxpayers are tired. (Times-Union)
- D.C. is requiring all teachers at two struggling schools to reapply for their jobs. (Washington Post)
by Geoff Decker,
at 7:05 am
- A divided City Council passed a resolution to allow religious groups to worship in schools. (News, WSJ)
- The state should pay students to take field tests, the council said in another resolution. (GothamSchools)
- Former Congressman Anthony Weiner officially announced that he’s running for mayor. (Times)
- Amid the wreckage and tragedy at Oklahoma schools were moments of educators’ heroism. (WSJ, Post)
- The city plans to remove PCB-filled light fixtures in schools by 2016. (GothamSchools, Times, Post, NY1)
- Students and professors at Teachers College protested Merryl Tisch’s commencement talk. (DNAInfo)
- Tisch said she doesn’t agree with Chancellor Dennis Walcott’s criticism of the mayoral candidates. (WSJ)
- A former teacher pled guilty to rape for having sex with a student and faces six months in prison. (News)
- Shuttered school buildings in Chicago threaten to take away a community outpost for many. (Times)
- Outside NYC, most school budgets passed: L.I., Lower Hud, Mid-Hudson, Cap. Region, Western, Central
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:16 am
- Hunter College High School is warning students against playing Killer, which uses fake guns. (NBC)
- The latest co-location fight is over a charter school’s planned addition to an adult learning center. (NY1)
- The city is under fire for paying principals who heard the chancellor’s political speech. (GothamSchools)
- City schools are being asked to address hate crimes and bullying once more this year. (GothamSchools)
- The Post says the city needs extra tutoring for poor students, not more accessible gifted programs.
- Private schools in the city are unhappy that parents are having nannies fill in on family tasks. (Post)
- Oklahoma’s sweeping tornado damage includes seven schools where students were killed. (USA Today)
- Chicago officials might take a few schools off the chopping block, but not more than five of 54. (Tribune)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 6:44 am
- Chancellor Walcott criticized mayoral candidates at an event for principals. (Times, NY1, Daily News)
- The New York Times backs the candidates, saying their education criticism is reasonable and overdue.
- Eva Moskowitz: The candidates aren’t saying how they would meet charter school demand. (Daily News)
- The NYC Charter Center’s CEO: Mayoral candidates are ignoring parents as they pander. (Daily News)
- A new civil rights complaint accuses the city’s high school admissions system of racial bias. (Daily News)
- The Board of Regents and State Assembly will work this week on a local DREAM Act. (GothamSchools)
- Field testing of standardized test questions is again angering some city educators and parents. (Times)
- Some city principals say they won’t use test scores to help screen students in protest. (GothamSchools)
- A judge decreed that the city cannot send out gifted admissions letters while they are contested. (WSJ)
- In the South Bronx, locals have carved out influence in school safety agent training. (GothamSchools)
- Some principals have earned bonuses of more than $50,000 since 2008, and one got $92,000. (Post)
- The new Promise Academy 1 charter school is opening soon in fancy new publicly funded space. (Post)
- Chicago teachers union chief Karen Lewis was reelected with 80 percent of votes. (Tribune, Sun-Times)
- Florida is the latest state to plan to hold its education schools accountable for outcomes. (StateImpact)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:04 am
- The city is doubling teacher training spending next year to account for the Common Core. (Daily News)
- Some students at LaGuardia, the elite arts school, have watched “Seinfeld” instead of having P.E. (Post)
- Parents filed suit against the city over its methods for admitting students to gifted programs. (WSJ, Post)
- An appellate court upheld rulings against last year’s city “turnaround” plans. (GothamSchools, NY1)
- Mayoral candidate Adolfo Carrión, Jr., get education tips from a right-wing think tank. (GothamSchools)
- A former principal in the Bronx’s District aims to open an Italy-themed charter school. (Riverdale Press)
- The Daily News criticizes Democratic mayoral candidates for opposing charter schools amid demand.
- Eva Moskowitz decries the candidates for levying unfounded charges against charter schools. (Post)
- Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’s widow, is stepping up giving in education and other areas. (Times)
- Arrests are still being made in the theft of iPads from Scholars’ Academy amid Sandy repairs. (NY1)
- Chicago’s calculation of school facilities needs and student commutes are drawing fire. (Tribune 1, 2)
- Texas and New Orleans are set to get more charter schools. (Dallas Morning News, Times-Picayune)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:17 am
- Parents with statistics expertise are questioning the city’s methodology for calculating giftedness. (WSJ)
- Advocates are concerned about the proposal in the city budget to cut school health clinics. (Daily News)
- Families and educators P.S. 186 in Brooklyn say its extended-day program is working. (Daily News)
- State legislative action on education seems unlikely this year given recent events. (GothamSchools)
- Bill Thompson set out a schools agenda. (GothamSchools, Times, SchoolBook, Post, Daily News, WSJ)
- Parents say all students who attend a sign-language school, not just deaf ones, should get busing. (NY1)
- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke to immigrant parents. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook)
- The city’s ethics board dinged a principal and teacher in two separate rulings. (GothamSchools, Post)
- Los Angeles is curbing suspensions for many school offenses, reflecting a national trend. (WSJ)
- Chicago’s teachers union filed suit over the city’s plan to close more than 50 schools. (Times, Sun-Times)
- A former U.S. DOE official is under fire for sharing federal information with his consulting group. (WSJ)
by Geoff Decker,
at 6:54 am
- Charter school advocates touted record-high demand for seats. (GothamSchools, Post, Daily News)
- As charter demand increases, so have the seats — and chances that students get one. (Schoolbook)
- Joel Klein and Sol Stern say hardliners on the left and right should embrace the Common Core. (WSJ)
- Merryl Tisch’s support for Bill Thompson is a political break from her husband, James Tisch. (Post)
- The public spat between Eva Moskowitz and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio continued. (Daily News)
- Prince Harry helped a Harlem charter school launch a coaching program for youth. (DNAInfo)
- Parents want tuition paid back from a Catholic school shuttered abruptly for health violations. (NY1)
- New Jersey is considering legislation to require statewide full-day prekindergarten. (Star-Ledger)
- As testing season heats up, parents are grappling with idea that their young children cheat. (WSJ)
- Chancellor Walcott on why the state should pick his evaluation plan — not the union’s. (Daily News)
- Greek civil servants are striking over the government’s efforts to quash a teachers union strike. (Times)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 6:37 am
- Generally even-keeled Chancellor Walcott lashed out over mayoral candidates’ recent remarks. (Times)
- Mayor Bloomberg said if the candidates’ promises at the UFT forum come true, “God help us.” (Post)
- The Daily News says the candidates turned back Bloomberg’s reforms in their UFT forum comments.
- Bronx Success Academy, an Eva Moskowitz school, also replaced its PCB-ridden lights. (Daily News)
- Families aren’t receiving books while the much touted Imagination Library program is in turmoil. (WSJ)
- City school cafeterias have racked up thousands of health violations during inspections. (FOX NY)
- After one school’s state test boycott, Seattle will let high schools decide whether to test. (Seattle Times)
- Pennsylvania’s records officer testified that state charter schools violate open records laws. (Inquirer)
- The former administrator who led a teacher cheating ring in Memphis was sentenced to prison. (Times)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 6:33 am
- The UFT was a campaign stop. (GothamSchools, Times, Post, Daily News, AP, CapitalNY, SchoolBook)
- UFT chief Michael Mulgrew wants a “truth commission” to check Bloomberg’s education claims. (Times)
- Pearson made another mistake. (GothamSchools, Post, Times, Daily News, NY1, SchoolBook, WSJ)
- The Daily News insinuates that city officials are as guilty as Pearson for giving it a second chance.
- The Post says Pearson and Christine Quinn’s “political meddling” are both threats to gifted programs.
- A Manhattan principal was accused for a second time of falsifying evidence against a teacher. (Post)
- Education policy heavyweights discussed recent reforms, with some criticizing them. (GothamSchools)
- Chancellor Walcott defended the ban on butter in city school cafeterias on health grounds. (Daily News)
- Some neighbors in Bayside, Queens, are complaining about a plan to build a new school. (CBS NY)
- A retired teacher says those looking for science success in high schools have examples locally. (Post)
- More wealthy Chinese families are sending children to private high schools in New York City. (Times)
- A panel voted to build a new school on Sandy Hook Elementary’s site, but not all agree. (Times, WSJ)
- A group that opposes vouchers and the growth of charter schools wields influence in Texas. (Times)
- Two education professors argue that poverty’s “opportunity gap” must be addressed. (Daily News)
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