NYC Public School Parents

Check out this excerpt from an article in the Queens Courier, about the recent Town hall meeting in Howard Beach, with Council member Joe...

More than 300 New York City public school students were illegally arrested on school grounds between 2005 and 2007, according to NYPD dat...

See another great column today by Juan Gonzalez of the Daily News, pointing out all the expensive hiring STILL going on at Tweed – despit...

Check out this new video on term limits from Billionaires for Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the Working Families Party has gotten involved -- their ...

I’m reasonably good at keeping up with the news, so I'm puzzled that I seem to have missed this item, reported by Grace Rauh of the now-...

Spotlight on Mayoral control: Lessons from recent history Friday, October 17 at 6:30 PM at Judson Church Speakers includ...

What is really sad is that we have to rely on the shifting views of one quirky billionaire to save us from the arrogant power grab of anot...

October 6, 2008 (GBN News): In a stunning new development, the McCain campaign announced today that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is volunta...

Thanks so much to all of you who were able to attend our rally on school overcrowding on Friday morning. We filled the steps of City Hall, ...

October 1, 2008 (GBN News): A source close to Mayor Bloomberg has told GBN News that the Mayor will soon announce what will be termed a “mas...

The editors of the New York Times have taken the time to lecture us today on term limits, specifically how they are "profoundly undemoc...

We have lost several terrific reporters from the education beat recently. Erin Einhorn of the Daily News, perhaps the best investigative re...

Recent news reports have focused on the fact that over 1,400 teachers are sitting in Absent Teacher Reserve – paid their regular salaries bu...

NY Post poin ts out that Tweed has hired Samantha Biletsky as the DOE chief ethics officer -- who held a similar job “with deposed, eth...

Yesterday’s NY Times features an article about the new institute at Harvard run by Roland Fryer with Eli Broad’s money, which is going to e...

" We will have the willingness to try new things and be wrong — the type of humbleness to say, I have no idea whether this will work, b...

The lack of space in our schools – a problem that is getting worse every day in many neighborhoods -- is the biggest obstacle we have to pro...

Check out the first public session sponsored by the Parent Commission on School Governance and Mayoral control, about the history of NYC gov...

There is now abundant evidence to show that the grades that DOE awards schools – their so-called “progress reports” -- are meaningless and r...

In response to my letter to Harvard and other foundations about their support for the controversial large-scale experiments in NYC and D...

According to the online newspaper Metro NY , a psychologist, Michael Cohen, was brought in by NY City in 2001 to study the effects of the 9/...