A proposal by the Department of Education to base tenure on classroom performance was met with heavy opposition Thursday by the teacher’s union.
The DOE along with Schools Chancellor Joel Klein have proposed linking tenure to a teacher’s results in the classroom and to student test scores.
Of the 7,000 teachers up for tenure this year, about [...]
Parents who rely on free after-school programs and communities that benefit from keeping unsupervised teens off the street could lose out if New York lawmakers approve $11 million in program cuts proposed by Gov. David Paterson.
With less than two months before the state budget is due, advocacy groups are raising their voices and holding out [...]
David Paterson says he’ll keep pushing legislation to lift the cap on charter schools in New York.
Paterson says the state is close to reaching its limit and there are now 30,000 students enrolled.
Noting that the Legislature last month didn’t approve his measure to lift the cap, Paterson says he’ll try again either in revisions to [...]
The city’s Panel for Education policy voted to shut down 19 chronically underperforming schools.
The hearing, which began Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn, stretched into the morning before a single vote was held. The panel voted 9-4 to close the schools at 3 a.m. after a raucous nine-hour meeting.
The hearing was met with [...]
Responsible city principals who save up their funds won’t have to spend them or lose them.
After complaints by some principals, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein reversed course Thursday, saying he’d worked out a deal.
“We have adjusted our budget plans to enable schools to roll money forward from their current budgets to the next school year,” Klein [...]
Lawmakers will pass a bill to boost the state’s looming cap on charter schools “within a week and in time for the deadline” to compete for up to $700 million in federal aid, a senior legislative official told The Post yesterday.
“It’s a good compromise that will meet the White House’s test,” the official said. “It’s [...]
While state math test scores make it seem students are doing better in the subject, results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, released today indicate otherwise.
The study shows that students in New York State have made no progress in math over the past two years.
According to the state tests, fourth grade math [...]
Next week, education budget cuts will cause 530 school aides to be laid off, even if their schools can afford to keep them on.
The Department of Education says there are currently more aides than jobs.
While no school that budgeted for an aide will lose the position, union rules may force individual aides could be replaced [...]
In an effort to combat childhood obesity, the city’s highest school board voted Wednesday to change vendors for school vending machines.
The new machines will dispense drinks and snacks that adhere to strict nutritional guidelines. Snacks such as wasabi peas, diced peaches and seven grain crackers will now be sold.
That means food companies will need to [...]
More charter schools may be coming to the city under a plan proposed Wednesday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Speaking at a 10th anniversary celebration of charter schools at the Sisulu-Walker Charter school in Harlem, the mayor said if reelected, he would fight to abolish the cap put on charter schools by Albany.
Bloomberg’s plan would double the [...]
