NYC Public School Parents

The city released their class size reduction proposal last week. Despite calling it a five year plan, as the state requires, it is anything...

July 25, 2007 (GBN News): Filmmaker Woody Allen announced today that he is hiring Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Department of Education...

Last month we highlighted a long article critical of the Bloomberg record on education that ran in the progressive magazine The Nation. Th...

New York City's Panel for Educational Policy met Monday night and reviewed the DoE's plan for the Contract for Excellence. The cont...

(Ed. Note): Recent news reports of an al-Qaeda resurgence are a chilling reminder of the realities we face as parents in New York City. We ...

Friday, July 13, 2007 (GBN News): Given the intense interest in the upcoming Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, GBN...

Many parents, teachers, and elected officials spoke out this week at public hearings on the Bloomberg administration's "Contract fo...

Department of Education leaders held a hearing Wednesday night to collect public comment on their proposed Contract for Excellence. As the ...

Yesterday, DOE released its state-mandated proposal for class siz e reduction. For news clips about their proposal, and our reaction, see ar...

July 3, 2007 (GBN News): While a decision has reportedly been tabled until fall, the controversy over the selection of a Principal at an Ea...

See articles from the NY Times and NY Post about the Gates-funded small schools boasting of much higher graduation rates than the larger sc...

The NY Times ran a front page story on a charter school whose wealthy benefactors purged the board of trustees of parents and teachers. Ac...

June 28, 2007 (GBN News): Concerned that Mayoral control of the NY City school system may not be renewed, Mayor Bloomberg has, according to...

Today, we released our independent NYC parent survey online . It was launched by some of us who volunteered to be part of the DOE focus grou...

It’s the end of another school year, and time for the GBN News “Predict Next Year’s Education News” contest, an annual GBN tradition since 2...

Here's an excerpt from a letter to Chancellor Klein from John Elfrank-Dana, teacher and chapter leader at the Murry Bergtraum High Sch...

Check out the scathing critique in the Huffington Post by Diane Ravitch, contributor to this blog, of the Mayor's proposal to pay stude...

Mayor Bloomberg has won accolades for his plan of sustainable growth, PlaNYC 2030, which he calls "our plan for a greener, greater New ...

June 22,2007 (GBN News): In a rare, exclusive interview today with GBN News, NY City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein discussed a wide range o...

Lynnell Hancock has written a terrific piece for the Nation laying out the way in which this administration has autocratically ignored the v...

June 21, 2007 (Gadfly News) In a surprising twist in the city’s increasingly tense struggle over the direction of its schools, a coalition ...

June 20, 2007 (GBN News): The rollout of New York City’s new educational cash incentive plan was marred by several incidents yesterday. Th...