NYC Public School Parents

Yesterday in court, the United Federation of Teachers argued that the DOE should not release the teacher data reports to the public, despit...

Second graders in San Lorenzo, California classroom learning about Value-added test scores. Watch it and weep.

Amazing how sexy the education privateers find each other. In the NY Times , a few weeks ago, Joe Williams of the charter lobby group De...

Today, in justifying the eleven school closings, with more to come, Deputy Chancellor Marc Sternberg made the following statement : “ Year ...

In the past dozen years, undergraduate college enrollment in China increased some 800% to over six million students. What might on its f...

In a stunning burst of friendly fire, the normally fawning paper, Crains New York Business, took the mayor to task for his handling of the ...

Last Sunday night, the Gotham Independent Film Awards kicked off the 2010 film awards season with a much-deserved Best Feature prize to “Wi...

I stand here today in the spirit of my female ancestors, such as Harriet Tubman, the mother of the Underground Railroad, Sojourner Truth, th...

"I represent the borough of Manhattan on what the mayor calls the Panel for Educational Policy but what is in the law the Board of Edu...

Check out the great statement by Patrick Sullivan, Manhattan member from the Panel for Educational Policy. Other newsclips at Gotham ...

The news blackout on our new chancellor continues into its third week. Education beat reporters are starting to get testy as they chased r...

“If it looks to good to be true, it’s probably not.” It’s an adage as old as the hills, but it’s also an excellent reminder to stay skeptica...

November 30, 2010 (GBN News): NY City Chancellor-designate Cathie Black experienced her first ever visit to a public school today. Breakin...

"I feel fantastic," said Black in the Upper East Side. "I just went to a couple of parties and people said, "How wonder...

Yesterday, Commissioner Steiner approved a waiver for Cathie Black, a magazine executive, to become our next Chancellor, despite a total ...

State Education Commissioner David Steiner’s plan to grant an education qualifications waiver to Cathleen Black as NYC Schools Chancellor w...

For more on today's press conference, see NY1 , NY1 noticias , the Brooklyn Eagl e, photos on Flickr, and the website, denywaiver.com

Bowing to the painfully obvious, even the stacked panel assembled by Commissioner Steiner voted to deny Cathie Black the waiver she nee...

I drafted this a week ago and had hoped I'd never have to post it; unfortunately, reality got the better of hope and David Steiner caved...