NYC Public School Parents

See the new report , produced by an independent consultant for the UFT, showing that based on DOE’s own data, the city has utterly failed to...

Following quickly on the heels of his Monday morning proclamation that the Glen Oaks school campus will be renamed in honor of sitting Repub...

April 23, 2008 (GBN News): Fresh on the heels of an appellate court ruling upholding the City Department of Education ban on possession of...

Read Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s important new report on school overcrowding, “ Crowded Out. ” Here in NYC we are in th...

Yesterday, the US Dept. of Education proposed changes to the regulations governing NCLB, to require a uniform definition of the four year gr...

In January, school safety agents at Queens’ P.S. 81 handcuffed Denis Rivera, a 5-year-old special education student, for acting out in his ...

Imagine you’re a parent whose child will be entering first grade next September. Imagine as well that your town’s Board of Education has ann...

It all seems so innocent, so generously charming. A young woman named Jessica Tisch, doubtless a hardworking, upwardly-striving, small town ...

At an emergency 8:00 AM meeting Thursday morning, the Panel for Educational Policy voted to expand G&T admissions to all kids meeting th...

So the NY State budget finally was decided , with all the proposed cuts to NYC schools restored, and the promise of CFE maintained, yet all ...

An article in today’s Times about how the congestion pricing plan wasn’t helped by the Mayor's arrogance and threats to finance the cam...

See the article in today’s NY Sun in which Bloomberg and Klein complain about the lack of hearings and public process as regards the pro...

Great commentary by Dan Brown re the proposed budget cuts to our schools in the Huffington Post , which the Mayor touts as inevitable, but i...

Whatever your views on congestion pricing, the refusal of the Assembly to hold a vote on it today -- the deadline for federal funding -- m...

April 4, 2008 (GBN News): With his congestion pricing plan facing an uncertain future in the State Legislature, Mayor Bloomberg today intr...

UPDATE (April 9th): As reported, the PEP will hold an emergency vote on April 10th to lower the cutoff to 90% for district G&T programs....

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...