Check out our latest "Talk out of School" podcast with Tom Sheppard on pushing the envelope on Panel for Educational Policy to empower parents on issues such as school mergers, closures, and larger educational policies regarding testing, funding and class size; and Regent Kathy Cashin on how smaller classes transformed her schools when she was Superintendent of D23 & Regional Superintendent in Brooklyn and Queens.
Resources:
Panel for Educational Policy agenda for May 18 meeting and contract list; instructions on how to listen or comment here.
Daily News article on proposed closure of PS 88 in the Bronx
NY Times 2006 profile of Kathleen Cashin and her work as a Superintendent and Regional Superintendent in Brooklyn and Queens.
Regent Cashin’s op-ed on what happened in her schools when class size was reduced.
The PEP to comment about the Pearson contract is tonight May 19 (not May 18 as written above)
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