Just as federal officials begin pushing school systems to evaluate teachers based on their students’ performance, the city has inked a deal with the University of Wisconsin to expand a program that can do just that. The contract will pay the Wisconsin Center for Education Research $840,000 over three years to produce individual teacher reports [...]
Students in one suburban New York community may soon be able to get pregnancy tests at school health centers. The school board in the Westchester County village of Port Chester approved a measure to add pregnancy tests and tests for sexually transmitted diseases to the services available at the clinics. The clinics are in elementary, [...]
State Senate Democrats said Friday they had a deal to resolve how New York City schools are governed, reauthorizing Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s authority over the school system and ending weeks of bickering. Three officials familiar with negotiations, including a Democratic senator, said the deal Bloomberg’s camp helped negotiate will create a $1.7 million training center [...]
There’s a deal in the works today that would allow Mayor Michael Bloomberg to regain control of the city’s schools system. Local State Senate Democrats will be discussing a plan this afternoon that would eliminate the newly-recreated Board of Education. The legislation would give Bloomberg sole control of the school system, but it would also [...]
More city teachers are reportedly failing to make the grade. The Daily News reported today that the percentage of teachers rated unsatisfactory has nearly doubled over the last three years. According to the report, a little more than 1,500 of the school system’s approximately 80,000 teachers received the unsatisfactory rating. That’s about two percent of [...]
New York State Senator Pedro Espada Jr says the legislative body will not take up the issue of mayoral control of city schools. After delaying their session more than six hours yesterday, senators met past 3 a.m. to confirm judicial appointments, setting term limits for legislative leaders and dolling out resources. None of the measures [...]
State Sen. John Sampson, the head of the Democratic Conference, will attempt to ram through several last-minute amendments to school-governance legislation in exchange for extending Mayor Bloomberg’s control over schools, sources said last night. Sampson — heeding the wishes of critics of mayoral control within his 32-member conference — is considering proposals requiring schools to [...]
Sources say an understanding has been reached in Albany for the Senate to pass the Assembly’s bill renewing mayoral control of the city school system. The plan calls for the Senate to amend the bill at a later date. Key Senate Democrats, notably Democratic conference leader John Sampson, want a few more checks on the [...]
The chief accountability officer for New York City schools has resigned. James S. Liebman says he’ll leave the Department of Education on July 20 because his leave from Columbia University is ending. He is a law professor there. Shael Polakow-Suransky will take over the job for now. The former Bronx high school principal is currently [...]
New York City’s hastily appointed seven-member Board of Education has voted to reappoint Schools Chancellor Joel Klein with full authority to run the school system. The Board of Education was reinstated by city officials on Wednesday after the state Senate failed to act on a bill to renew Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s control of the schools. [...]
