New York

QOD: NYS Regents Chancellor off to an “Unprofessional Start”

From the Buffalo News;It doesn’t augur well for excellence when the new chancellor of the state Board of Regents all…

9 years ago

Is Refusing Tests Just Like Fighting for Abolition and Marriage Equality?

At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students…

9 years ago

New Jersey has “Massive Achievement Gap” While New York’s is Only “Large,” via EEI Index

Education Cities and Great Schools have created a new tool that quantifies trends in achievement gaps in each state and…

9 years ago

New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa Suggests Poverty is Destiny; Has She Gone Too Far?

New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, queen of the opt-out movement in New York State and heroine to teacher union leaders,…

9 years ago

QOD: WSJ on NYC Mayor de Blasio’s “Embrace” of UFT & Unified Antipathy towards Charters

Read the whole article but here are a few tidbits:Mayor Bill de Blasio...has embraced the United Federation of Teachers and…

9 years ago

Buffalo News: NYS Regents Turning into Union-Sponsored “Special Interest Organization”

The Buffalo News opines on the pending election of Betty Rosa as Chancellor of the New York State Regents:Change appears…

9 years ago

Long Island Moms “Opt Out and Shop Out!”

OMG. This is so cool. Newsday reports today that “opponents of Common Core testing plan an ‘Opt Out, Shop Out’event…

9 years ago

Rosa’s Ascendency on N.Y.’s Board of Regents Worsens N.Y.’s Ed Reform Prognosis

On February 28th, the Daily News ran this headline: “RIP, NY School Reform.” Either the editors there weren’t letting on…

9 years ago

Is Education Reform Dead in New York State?

This weekend the Daily News Editorial Board published a condemnatory piece called “RIP, NY School Reform.” The evidence behind this…

9 years ago

New York’s Unlegislated Charter School Cap

(This is a guest post from Dirk Tillotson, the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Great Schools Choices which supports…

9 years ago