NYC Public School Parents

There were hundreds of parents, advocates and union members filling the seats at the Assembly hearings on governance at Lehman College ...

An excellent description in Gotham Schools of the bitter hearings that took place yesterday about the DOE's plan to eliminate PS 194, ...

Once again, the Daily News has run an editorial following in fawning lockstep behind the Bloomberg/Klein schools agendea. This time, the su...

Someone is creating space for new schools in NYC – unfortunately it’s not the DOE. See below article from NY Observer , about a private sc...

Last year, a bunch of public school parents brought a lawsuit against the city’s deal to lease most of the sports fields on Randall’s Is...

March 11, 2009 (GBN News): In a dramatic plea bargain, accused financier Bernard L. Madoff reportedly agreed today to be sentenced to a lif...

Ms. Gootman, It is truly unfortunate that your article on Chancellor Klein (Taking Sides on New York 's Chancellor, March 6) misses the ...

On April 2, 2008, the NY Daily News gave its Be Our Guest editorial slot to Kyesha Bennett, a founding member of Harlem Parents United (HPU...

The Community District Education Council of District 26 in Queens has filed a complaint with the Federal Department of Justice regarding the...

A few days ago, word appeared that the DOE’s proposed revisions to the Chancellor’s Regulations A-660 (which provide guidelines for governan...

While school children around the City enjoyed a rare snow day yesterday, a New York Times story this morning reveals that a small group of ...

Notification that public schools would be closed due to the snow went out at 5:40 am Monday morning. WNYC reported on the press conferenc...

Today's New York Times covers the Harlem Education Fair including School Chancellor Joel Klein's "impassioned" speech def...

February 27, 2009 (GBN News): According to sources close to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, his recent purchase and renovation of property adjacen...

The DOE intends to close PS 241 on W. 113 St., the only zoned school in the neighborhood, and give the building over to a charter school, y...

In the midst of all the massive budget cuts, DOE intends to contract out with a company to expand the production of the controversial teache...

Monday's Panel for Educational Policy meeting covered three topics. Presentations are available here: English Language Learners Update ...

SUMMARY OF CHANGES SUMMARY OF CHANGES The Daily News carried an article this morning, showing that despite the budget cuts, and the incr...