NYC Public School Parents

High Achievement NY put out a press release trumpeting a new poll from Achieve -- both organizations funded by the Gates Foundation to pro...

Today, Mayor Bloomberg announced that he would order Joel Klein to tie all teacher tenure decisions to student test scores. Whether this vi...

PowerPoint Presentation In today's Daily News , it is revealed that schools will be forced to pull teachers out of their classrooms fo...

At last week's meeting we heard the latest on the budget cuts. Click here for the presentation. There is information on page nine abo...

Monday's Panel for Educational Policy meeting included a briefing on the budget cuts. Click here for the full Powerpoint. At Mayor M...

See Test Industry Split Over 'Formative' Assessment , in Education Week, about how standardized testing companies are selling their...

New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum issued an analysis and statement today in support of parents complaints about excessive testing...

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

As our blog discussed more than a week ago, DOE announced that McGraw Hill will provide the new periodic assessments -- the same company th...