Wake Up, Mayor de Blasio
Laura Waters
August 12, 2016
Various media outlets (Politico, Chalkbeat, NY Post, Daily News, The 74) are reporting on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s comments yesterday on the
What De Blasio’s Charter School Hostility Means for NYC’s Schoolchildren
Laura Waters
August 3, 2016
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference last year on his plan to curtail expansions of Success Academy Charter Schools, which
NYS Releases Student Test Scores: What Results Tell Us About Common Core, Charters, and Opt-Out
Laura Waters
August 1, 2016
Friday afternoon New York State released this year’s student standardized assessment results. They shed light on three controversial issues that have roiled education politics across
Are New York City School Closures Good or Bad for Kids?
Laura Waters
July 28, 2016
Among various school improvement practices, there’s few more disruptive than closing neighborhood schools, even if those schools have been failing students for years. Carol Burris
What Was Christie’s Real Motive in Proposing a Radical — and Unpassable — School Funding Plan?
Laura Waters
July 5, 2016
In just the last week New York and New Jersey residents were confronted with some hard facts about K-12 student outcomes. StudentsFirstNY issued a report
If You Hate Space-Sharing of Schools, Don’t Blame Charters
Laura Waters
June 29, 2016
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has long regarded charter schools with antipathy, particularly the practice of allowing them to take advantage of unused
Brooklyn Schools, Heeding Opt-Out Advocates Advice, Lose Honor and Money
Laura Waters
June 7, 2016
Here’s the “BOTTOM LINE” from the-anti-accountability group New York State Allies for Public Education: A school district does NOT lose funding if there is less
Shame on Long Island’s “Wall of Shame” : Can We Just Stop with the Bullying?
Laura Waters
May 25, 2016
Michael Goot in the upstate New York Post Star reports on a website called the Wall of Shame that currently highlights fifteen school principals and superintendents,
What’s the Role of School Superintendents in Opt-Out Fever?
Laura Waters
April 21, 2016
Last week I looked at the how differences in state-level leadership, teacher unions, and parent advocacy may have affected New York and New Jersey’s “opt-out
Just How White is Opt-Out?
Laura Waters
April 18, 2016
Opt Out Long Island is jubilantly tweeting about soaring test refusal rates on the North Fork. the peninsula on the northeast part of Suffolk County.