A bill that would end the “last in, first out” layoff policy for New York City teachers passed in the State Senate today, but faces an uphill battle in the Assembly. Introduced late last week by State Senator John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, the bill rules out seniority as the sole factor in determining who [...]
Plans for building new city schools got slashed by 16,000 seats, Education Department officials announced Friday. Neighborhoods – such as Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Riverdale, the Bronx; North Shore, Staten Island and Bayside, Queens – each will lose out on hundreds of seats that the agency had expected to build by 2014. Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, alone will lose [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
