Crowding Persists, New Education Dept. Data Show
5:00 p.m. | Updated It is still very crowded out there.The School Construction Authority has posted its annual Blue Book, a report that assigns to each school structure a capacity and actual...
View Article4,177 Students and One Principal: A Day in the Life at Francis Lewis High...
Principals these days are expected to be a little bit of many different things: manager, educator, financial whiz, social worker, enforcer, data analyst, cheerleader and contortionist (figuratively, at...
View ArticleOfficials Pledge Help for Queens High School
Help is on the way to Queens Metropolitan High School, where administrators have been scrambling to fix a fiasco in scheduling for its 650 9th- and 10th-grade students.Gotham Schools reports that the...
View ArticleSex Ed, With an Emphasis on the Sex
Good morning. The threat of a possible school bus drivers strike hangs in the air this Monday morning. Will they? Won't they? If they do, when? Parents and students are left in uncertainty this short...
View ArticleChasing Every Student, for Money
The people assigned to the front entrance at New Utrecht, a large high school in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, spent the first two months of the school year on alert for the sounds of a 1980s rock anthem:...
View ArticleAttack Over a Basketball Game at Erasmus
In the news this wet Wednesday morning before Christmas are reports about a violent student-on-student attack at the Erasmus Hall educational campus in Brooklyn.Al Baker reported in City Room on...
View ArticleTeachers React to Release of Data
Teachers throughout the city have been objecting to the public release on Friday of individual teacher performance rankings. They called in to WNYC’s "The Brian Lehrer Show," they sent comments to...
View ArticleThe Case for Large High Schools
With upward of 60 more schools on the New York City Department of Education’s chopping block this spring, and with eighth-grade students about to learn their high school assignments, this is a good...
View ArticleSaul Gootnick: 'You Have to Do Baby Steps'
In Principal’s Office, a regular feature of SchoolBook, a city school principal is interviewed for insights into school management and the life of a school leader. What do you think makes a good...
View ArticleIn Defense of an Accused Teacher
It’s a rough year to be a teacher. Recently, hundreds of teachers had incredibly inaccurate “value-added” scores posted all over creation. A United Federation of Teachers representative I know had to...
View ArticleA Teacher's Lament: The Next Big Thing
As a New York City public school teacher, I’ve been attending meetings for almost three decades. There’s always an urgent problem that absolutely cannot wait.Students need more test prep. Students need...
View ArticleTuesday Offers Extra Day to Regroup and Repair
P.S. 100 gives warm welcome to returning studentsAfter schools opened for the majority of students Monday, the Bloomberg administration says it will take advantage of another day off for students to...
View ArticleThe Scoop From a Survey of School Papers
At a high school journalism conference at Baruch College earlier this month, Daniel Johnson-Kim, a Daily News editor, joked to a room full of student journalists that publishing the Daily News in the...
View ArticleConcerns with Regents May Lead to More Appeals
Although nearly all of the Regents exams have been scored, following glitches in a new scanning system, some will be graded again because families and educators have appealed the results. There are...
View ArticleNot All Teachers Falling in Line Behind Thompson
The United Federation of Teachers has gone all-out in its endorsement of mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, spending more than $1 million through its political action committee and producing a new...
View ArticleOpinion: NYC Teachers Want Excellence Too
Education is my thing. I read everything I see about it. But I’m weary of seeing the same message over and over. Billionaire-funded education groups that aim to "reform" our schools seem to sneer at...
View ArticleBloomberg's Last Day of School
It was Queens day for Mayor Michael Bloomberg who has spent this week highlighting his administration's successes on a five-borough tour, and he used Friday's stop to tout his education legacy....
View ArticleDelegates Recommend a Yes Vote for Teachers Contract
More than 2000 delegates of the teachers union approved a proposed new contract with the city on Wednesday, sending it to their members for the final vote. But the sentiment among delegates seemed to...
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