NYC Public School Parents

According to today’s Daily News , the Bloomberg administration is arguing in Albany that the Assembly’s proposal to erase the Governor’s cu...

As readers of this blog may have noticed by now, I often analyze data sets in order to “coax out” the stories they tell. I particularly enjo...

To paraphrase the immortal words of Casablanca’s Captain Renault, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that fudging the graduation rates is going o...

Check out what two expert researchers have to say about the know-nothing grade retention policies of Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein. Read...

Few public school parents had a reason to attend last Sunday's PSAL City Championship basketball games, but those like myself who did sa...

On Monday, the Panel for Educational Policy voted to approve the Chancellor's plan to hold back children in the 8th grade based on stand...

Monday night at the meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy, members voted on the new proposal to hold 8th graders back on the basis of ...

March 17, 2008 (GBN News): School security officers today broke up what NY City Department Of Education officials termed an “illegal pizza...

On Monday, the Panel on Educational Policy will vote on a proposal to hold back 8th graders on the basis of their test scores. Manhattan B...

March 12, 2008 (GBN News): In yet another stunning development, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that he is naming Eliot Spitzer to ...

March 7, 2008 (GBN News): The NY City Department of Education, as part of its effort to expand arts education in the schools, announced to...

Once again, the Daily News editorial board has come to the defense of Mayor Bloomberg’s control of the public school system. In a March 4, 2...

On Monday the City Council held hearings on Mayoral control ; most of those who testified said that the current system was not working -- th...

Yesterday the Mayor announced further cuts to our schools of another 3% next year, over the 5% already proposed, amounting to more than $...

Read this article about Murry Bergtraum HS from the Downtown Express. The article explains how many of the school’s problems with overcrow...

Last March, we reported how Juice Analytics, a high-tech company based in DC, had greeted the announcement of ARIS, the DOE's superexpe...

The DOE’s recently updated average class size reports undoubtedly have their share of errors and flawed categorizations at the individual s...

While the Mayor claims that his proposed cuts of more than $500 million over two years will have " no impact whatsoever " on ou...

February 27, 2008 (GBN News): The NY City Department of Education announced today a billion dollar expansion of its ARIS computer system....

The teachers’ union, the school district, and city hall spent seven years collaborating on a public school teachers’ merit pay program, buil...

On Tuesday March 11, parent groups, including Class Size Matters, CPAC, and others are planning to travel to Albany to urge the state legi...

Two weeks ago, I posted an entry ( "More Editorial Nonsense in the Major NYC Newspapers" ) taking rather strident issue with a NY ...