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Success Academy’s Harlem West, Wadleigh Secondary, and De Blasio’s “Hodgepodge of Feel-Good Programs”

Nicholas Simmons, currently a vice principal at New York City’s Success Academy, tells his “tale of two schools, one building”…

9 years ago

Jersey City Schools Regain Local Control: from “Academic Bankruptcy” to “Promising Improvements”

From Mayor Steve Fulop's press release:TRENTON – Today, Mayor Steven Fulop and Superintendent Marcia Lyles joined New Jersey’s Commissioner of…

9 years ago

QOD: Great Irony of Progressives: Equal Access to Marriage, Living Wages, and Healthcare, but Not to Schools

Kristen Forbriger responds to the feature story in Philly Mag called “A City Parent’s Guide to Schools,” illustrated by a…

9 years ago

QOD: Mayor of Yonkers on Overcoming N.Y.’s Dual School System, One for Poor Kids and One for Rich Kids

While the State needs to step up funding and contribute to constructions costs, says Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano,The teachers unions…

9 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

Preschool Update: W. Steven Barnett, director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University, opines in NJ…

9 years ago

Mayor De Blasio and UFT: How Close is Too Close? (plus a personal reflection)

I’ve been awfully tough on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and his apparent lack of urgency in addressing the city…

9 years ago

QOD: NYC High School Principal on the Impact of the Common Core on Low-Performing Students

Caterina Lafergola, the principal of New York City’s Automotive High, spoke to Chalkbeat about her challenges in leading one of…

9 years ago

New Mathematica Study on KIPP Charter Schools as They Scale Up; FYI, They Don’t “Cream Off” Top Students

Skeptics of KIPP argue that these schools rely on selective admission, attrition, and replacement of students to produce positive achievement…

9 years ago

QOD: Black Lives Don’t Matter to Bill de Blasio

Speaking of incremental vs. transformative change, the Wall St. Journal's William McGurn writes about how black and Hispanic children in…

9 years ago

Incremental Bill de Blasio vs. Transformative Eva Moskowitz: Coming to a Theater Near You?

This morning Chalkbeat reports on the rain-delayed rally run by Families for Excellent Schools and, more pivotally, the confrontation between…

9 years ago