NYC Public School Parents

There's horrific news in today's Daily News: that NY State Education Commissioner King is likely to approve the mayor's prop...

The education proposals in Bloomberg’s State of the City address are being described as “ambitious” in the New York Times and GothamSchool...

C heck out my email to Joel Klein below and his canned reply. The message was sent through the NYC "take action" page" o...

Randi Weingarten’s recent speech, where she was introduced by Mike Bloomberg, includes a strong endorsement for teacher merit pay based on h...

An editorial entitled “Heads of the class” in today’s NY Daily News is as much jaw-droppingly astonishing for its unabashed toadying to Mayo...

Parents are meeting in every borough to talk about the excessive and high stakes tests which drastically affect our children's education...

Merit pay based on test scores, an even faster growing contagion in our school system than the drug resistant staph infection called MRSA, h...

October 25, 2007 (GBN News): NY City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is threatening to resign in a dispute with Mayor Bloomberg over merit pa...

Today, lots of incisive commentary about DOE’s plan to pay teachers at schools with low-performing schools that improve on test scores. In t...

An editorial in Saturday's NY Times argues, as others have, that the new merit pay proposal to be implemented in 200 low-performing sch...

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein have announced two new arrangements with the teachers’ union (UFT) that, combined with their policy ini...

I posted these wire service articles on the NY Education News listserv, but thought a wider audience might be interested. It seems there was...