NYC Public School Parents

By Gary Babad I feel that a recent blog comment by a reader named Jonathan, questioning a GBN News article, warrants a response in this spac...

There’s an article in the NY Post today, showing a big jump in the number of city employees making $150,000 or more in 2006: The increase wa...

In his Daily News column on Thursday, Juan Gonzalez broke the story about the proposal to give cash awards to students in the empowerment...

June 8,2007 (GBN News): A Brooklyn middle school student today became the first recipient of a new c ash incentive program of the NY City D...

Here is a quick update on yesterday's post about the Manhattan election where the question of mayoral control was being debated as a to...

June 6, 2007 (GBN News): Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon, whose reported appointment as NY City Schools Chancellor turned out to be a...

On Monday, City Council members and advocates blamed the Department of Education of " turning a blind eye " to disc...

The special election being held today on Manhattan's Upper East Side has become the first political contest to raise mayoral control of ...

June 4, 2007 (GBN News): In a sudden and dramatic reversal of policy , NY City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has reportedly directed Schools Chan...

In Thursday's raid of Booker T. Washington Junior High School, police captured 400+ cell phones. See the NY1 stories here and here a...

J onathan posted a good question in his comment . He said that he was more interested in the year-to-year changes of the same cohort (val...

Bob Herbert has a column in today’s New York Times about the overwhelming and often abusive presence of police in the NYC public schools ...

The recent release of English Language Arts scores for grades 3-8 by the New York State Education Department was treated as a cause for cele...

May 31, 2007 (Gadfly News): According to an anonymous source at the NYC Department of Education, a group of Tweed staffers today requested ...

Word is the response rate on the parent survey is so low that DOE will extend the deadline once again. They are now openly threatening princ...

May 31, 2007 (GBN News): The NY City Department of Education announced today what Chancellor Joel Klein called a “revolutionary new testing...

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

from Dorothy Giglio, long-time parent leader and President of Region 6, High School Presidents Council: I have just received my 3rd or 4th r...

In a move called "revolutionary ", Tweed announced the closing of two types of alternative schools. The first are the "P-Sch...

Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum has sent a letter to Chancellor Joel Klein, asking him to reverse the decision to exclude special education p...