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 [...]
A group of bus companies sued the Department of Education today, claiming that the city has violated competitive bidding statutes by contracting with a company known to have bribed school bus inspectors.
Members of the Panel for Educational Policy approved a three-year contract with Logan Bus Co. at a [...]
A meeting to determine the fate of schools marked for closure is being moved from Staten Island to Brooklyn after parents and teachers protested that some would have to travel over two hours to attend.
The Panel for Educational Policy meeting, where members will vote on the Department of Education’s proposals [...]
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 [...]
The Department of Education released details of a controversial space-sharing proposal for a Brooklyn charter and district school today, and it would allow the charter to remain in the building until 2015 and add five more grades of students.
The plan follows months of controversy about whether PAVE Academy Charter [...]
The Department of Education recently announced its plans to close Christopher Columbus High School, but a teacher and professional developer at the school is arguing that Columbus deserves another chance.
Christine Rowland, who works at the UFT Teacher Center at the school, explains in a piece in the community section [...]
Christine Rowland is a teacher and professional developer at the UFT Teacher Center at Christopher Columbus High School. She has been at Columbus since 2002.
On Monday, a team from the Department of Education walked into Christopher Columbus High School to announce that it would be closed. It was [...]
Last night, at the GothamSchools party, I had the opportunity to say hello to David Cantor, Press Secretary for the New York City Department of Education. As he turned to talk with an angry parent, a piece of paper fell out of his pocket, and I picked it up. It [...]
In the last round of school closure announcements for the year, the Department of Education said today that it intends to close three more high schools starting next year.
The three schools are Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education School, a vocational school in the South Bronx; Monroe Academy for [...]
If you work for the NYC Department of Education, getting small things done can often be a large task. But I’ve been doing it since its inception, and I have some advice for those who are bewildered, or simply discouraged. Even if you’ve been exiled to the most filthy, decrepit, [...]
The city has added nine more schools to its list of school closings (last week, the city announced eight closures, including Jamaica High School) due to poor performance and graduation rates. Today, NY1 reports that the Department of Education doesn't want any more' [...]
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 [...]
Jamaica High School, a long-beleaguered school in central Queens, is among four more schools the Department of Education today said it would phase out beginning at the end of the school year.
The other schools are the School for Community Research and Learning, a Bronx high school; the Academy for [...]
The city’s Department of Education announced plans today to close four public schools that the department believes are “failing” to educate students.
Citing the schools’ low graduation rates and poor scores on state standardized tests, the DOE said it would phase out two high schools and two middle schools next [...]
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 [...]
The city’s Department of Education has nearly hit the ceiling on the number of charter schools it is allowed to authorize and will not approve any more until the state cap is lifted.
On Monday, the DOE sent a list of 15 approved charter schools to the State Education Department for [...]
City schools are staring down their fifth round of budget cuts in the last two years, and we want to know what’s on the line.
Mayor Bloomberg has ordered the Department of Education to cut its budget by 1.5 percent for the current fiscal year and [...]
A debate is brewing over in the community section about how the Department of Education assigns progress report grades to high schools.
On Wednesday, Teachers College professor and regular GothamSchools contributor Aaron Pallas critiqued the DOE’s methodology for producing the high school grades, which were released earlier this week. [...]
