NYC Public School Parents

Amidst all the hype and furor of the release of today’s NYC school "progress reports", everyone should remember how the grades ar...

See articles on this year’s elementary and middle school grades, or “progress reports”: Times , NY Post , Daily News , NY1 , and this piec...

This week, Joel Klein is visiting Australia to promote his educational policies and perspective. To alert Aussies to the disinformation c...

According to the Age , the Australian teachers union and parent advocates are already rising up in protest against the highly unreliable NYC...

Yesterday’s glowing announcement of the “pilot test” release of School Progress Reports for 20 charter schools should hardly come as a surpr...

Mike Meenan of NY1 had an excellent story last night about the Chancellor’s failure to consult with any Community Education Councils before...

Diane Ravitch has an oped in today's NY Sun about the new school grades: Is the grading system accurate and reliable? Did the grading s...

On Monday, at the City Council hearings on the school grades, James Liebman, the chief accountability czar and former law professor, faced f...

Class Size Matters has a new online petition , asking that the school grading system be terminated, and all the hundreds of millions of doll...

At last week’s meeting of the Panel on Education Policy at Tweed, Jim Liebman’s performance in attempting to defend the indefensible – the s...

Yesterday, the DOE let the legal deadline for class size reporting lapse. Not entirely surprising, given the fact that they have refused to...

The NAEP scores for 11 big cities were released on November 15 and there was a little good news for New York City and quite a lot of bad ...