NYC Public School Parents

On WCBS news yesterday, Maria Dapontes-Daughterty, the President of the Presidents Council in D30 Queens and I were interviewed by Marcia Kr...

In what was an open secret but never publicly disclosed before, Randi Weingarten, the President of the United Federation of Teachers, talks...

October 12, 2007 (GBN News): Spurred by the increasing number of arrests of students and school personnel, the NY City Department of Educ...

Here is a letter to the New York State Board of Regents from Marge Kolb, a parent leader in Queens . It points out that while state law req...

We asked Sally Lee of Teachers Unite to contribute this entry to our blog: The arrest of the student and principal at East Side Community H...

See article from today’s NY Sun profiling the new head of the charter school office at DOE, Michael Duffy. Duffy comes from Boston. As he s...

The life and death of the City Hall Academy, as so poignantly told by the NY Times , is emblematic of the story of this administration. Her...

October 6, 2007 (GBN News): Mayor Michael Bloomberg today defended the no-bid contract given to Blackwater USA by the Department of Educat...

Probably you’ve seen one the many ads that are running on TV, radio and bus shelters – touting the great improvements in our public schools...

I know you've all been dying to know. Gordon, a former attorney and would-be educational reformer, spent a few months working at Tweed ...

October 3, 2007 (GBN News): The New York City Department of Education is embroiled in another military recruiting controversy today, this...

See today's oped in the Daily News by Assembly member Cathy Nolan and City Council member Eric Gioia, responding to Deputy Mayor Dennis...

"He is wrong at every level - dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong." -- Elliot Spitzer on M...

Diane Ravitch has a great oped in today's NY Post about how the recent NAEP scores further undermine NY State’s claim of great jumps i...

The Panel for Educational Policy meets monthly to review DOE policies and approve budgets. As the appointee of Borough President Scott Strin...

Yesterday, President Bush stood in front of a group of New York City elementary school students with the Mayor by his side. He urged the ...

This week the NYC Independent Budget Office came out with new class size figures, showing that class size reduction has slowed to a crawl,...

Results from the recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) put into doubt many NYS Education Department (NYSED) ...

Check out this NY Times oped -- by education advocates Neha Singh and Khin Mai Aung --pointing out that DOE officials have refused to enfor...

September 25, 2007: Controversy swirled this week over whether it is appropriate to give a forum to illegitimate and dictatorial leaders, ch...

The hearings on parental involvement before the City Council on Thursday offered some fireworks -- and real insights. Because there was no m...

September 23, 2007 (GBN News): The NYC Department Of Education announced today that former Vice President Dan Quayle will become the DOE’s ...

September 21, 2007 (GBN News): A controversial new plan by the NY City Department of Education to have children bury their cell phones ou...

Today's City Council hearings on parent engagement went for many hours. One early development was the angry back and forth between counc...