At the same time city schools are poised to suffer mid-year budget cuts, the Department of Education is awarding $12 million in pay raises over the next two years to non-union department employees, Chancellor Joel Klein announced this afternoon.
Central office employees have gone two years without raises and are getting [...]
Highlights from the Dec. 17 issue of New York Teacher:
UFT President Michael Mulgrew sent an e-mail to members accusing the mayor and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein of promoting “fake reforms, simplistic ‘solutions’ and sheer fantasy.”
The city packed more students into its [...]
New York’s new Education Commissioner David Steiner, pictured here with Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and Dep. Commissioner John King, just rolled out an ambitious agenda for overhauling the state’s schools, as well as the tests given to students to see how the schools are doing.
One of his [...]
State Education Commissioner David Steiner and Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch welcome board members to their December meeting in Albany this morning.
The public will [...]
With the last of the official announcements of the schools targeted for closure by Chancellor Klein, the final grim toll can be tallied. An unprecedented twenty-one schools have been told that the Department of Education will begin their phase out in September 2010. Fifteen of those schools — a completely [...]
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein defended the city's results on the NAEP math exams this afternoon at Tweed Courthouse.
Frustrated with criticism that city students made no progress on a national math [...]
In the most sweeping round of school shuttering this year, the Department of Education announced today that it intends to phase out nine more schools, eight of them high schools and three of them opened under Chancellor Joel Klein.
The schools slated for closure today include large high schools in every [...]
Chancellor Klein talks about his physics and chemistry teacher at Bryant High School.
A new website is soliciting stories of peoples’ most life-changing teachers, while also donating money to classrooms in need.
My Teacher, My Hero is an online repository of videos of everyone from [...]
More than week after Mayor Bloomberg handed Chancellor Joel Klein a to-do list of items anathema to the teachers union, UFT president Michael Mulgrew is promising a fight.
In an email sent to United Federation of Teachers members this afternoon, Mulgrew said the mayor’s proposals will “damage the schools and [...]
Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch supports raising the cap on the number of charter schools allowed in New York State, she told me in an interview yesterday.
“My opinion is that the charter cap is now at a place where it will prevent us from opening great charter schools,” Tisch [...]
Several schoolteachers are suing Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, claiming their confinement to "rubber rooms" -- holding facilities for teachers removed from duty, usually on disciplinary charges...
Continue reading "Teachers Bring Suit Against Klein Over Rubber Rooms" >Monday afternoon, I had the opportunity to respond to Merryl Tisch, Chancellor of the Board of Regents, and David Steiner, the New York State Commissioner of Education, as they talked about the future of P-16 education in New York State at the Phyllis L. Kossoff Policy Lecture at Teachers College, [...]
Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch disagreed with Mayor Bloomberg’s education proposals in the most agreeable way possible tonight, saying that the mayor’s call for New York to accept common national curriculum standards doesn’t go far enough.
In a speech in Washington, D.C., last week, Bloomberg called on Tisch and [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The city’s Department of Education will use student test scores in teacher tenure decisions this year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this morning.
Speaking at the Center for American Progress, Bloomberg asked Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to follow a new interpretation of the state law that bans the use [...]
Slightly more than a dozen schools saw their budgets take a hit as a result of Chancellor Joel Klein’s hiring ultimatum.
In early September, Klein sent an email to principals warning that if they didn’t fill their vacancies by October 30, the money would be taken out of their budgets [...]
