New York

Wake Up, Mayor de Blasio

Various media outlets (Politico, Chalkbeat, NY Post, Daily News, The 74) are reporting on New York City Mayor Bill de…

8 years ago

What De Blasio’s Charter School Hostility Means for NYC’s Schoolchildren

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference last year on his plan to curtail expansions of…

8 years ago

NYS Releases Student Test Scores: What Results Tell Us About Common Core, Charters, and Opt-Out

Friday afternoon New York State released this year’s student standardized assessment results. They shed light on three controversial issues that…

8 years ago

Are New York City School Closures Good or Bad for Kids?

Among various school improvement practices, there’s few more disruptive than closing neighborhood schools, even if those schools have been failing…

8 years ago

What Was Christie’s Real Motive in Proposing a Radical — and Unpassable — School Funding Plan?

In just the last week New York and New Jersey residents were confronted with some hard facts about K-12 student…

8 years ago

If You Hate Space-Sharing of Schools, Don’t Blame Charters

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has long regarded charter schools with antipathy, particularly the practice of allowing them…

8 years ago

Brooklyn Schools, Heeding Opt-Out Advocates Advice, Lose Honor and Money

Here's the "BOTTOM LINE" from the-anti-accountability group New York State Allies for Public Education:A school district does NOT lose funding…

8 years ago

Shame on Long Island’s “Wall of Shame” : Can We Just Stop with the Bullying?

Michael Goot in the upstate New York Post Star reports on a website called the Wall of Shame that currently highlights…

8 years ago

What’s the Role of School Superintendents in Opt-Out Fever?

Last week I looked at the how differences in  state-level leadership, teacher unions, and parent advocacy may have affected New…

9 years ago

Just How White is Opt-Out?

Opt Out Long Island is jubilantly tweeting about soaring test refusal rates on the North Fork. the peninsula on the…

9 years ago