NYC Public School Parents

Fox News carried a very scary story last night, about the toxic contamination at the Information Technology HS in Long Island City -- a...

As widely anticipated , the Broad Foundation gave its prize to NYC today -- despite the letter we sent yesterday, asking them to withhol...

It is widely expected that after being nominated three times, NYC will win the Broad prize tomorrow for most improved urban school district...

The Daily News follows up with updates on its revelatory -- and horrifying -- series about abuse of special ed students on school buses. Fo...

September 16, 2007 (GBN News): GBN News has learned that contrary to critics’ claims, the NY City Department of Education does not need to ...

Colbert was very funny on Wednesday night's show -- the Chancellor not-so-much. See Colbert commenting on the administration's con...

On Thursday, the Queens Times published a lengthy letter from Deputy Assembly Speaker Ivan C. Lafayette which was highly critical of DOE...

In response to our letter to the Mayor , asking him to correct his misstatements about the results of the Department of Education parent sur...

On Thursday, September 13, the Queens Chronicle ran a story by Colin Gustafson entitled, " Parents Give 'A+' To Teachers But L...

There is still no word from the State Education Department on DOE's Contract for Excellence, the plan that needs to be approved in order...

A follow up to yesterday’s Forest Hills HS scanning story : 1) My co-worker, whose son’s phone was confiscated in yesterday’s scanning, spok...

We are getting a number of inquiries from parents seeking to know the limits on the number of children per class. From the Frequently Asked...

This letter was faxed to City Hall today: Hon. Michael Bloomberg Mayor, City of New York City Hall New York 10007 September 11, 2007 ...

Lest anyone think that the Mayor and Chancellor might be a bit chastened by yesterday’s overwhelming 46-2 City Council veto override of a bi...

Last year, Mayor Bloomberg dismissed parents’ concerns over the cell phone ban by claiming that his office had only received about 500 calls...

September 10, 2007 (GBN News): While many New York City parents and politicians struggle to make sense of Mayor Bloomberg’s intransigence ov...

September 10, 2007 (GBN News): Mayor Bloomberg, in criticizing today’s override by the City Council of his veto of a bill guaranteeing ch...

Check out this NY Sun story -- disclosing a UFT study that concluded that the 2005 NY state ELA 4th grade test was as many as six grade lev...

On Thursday, the Mayor and Chancellor held a press conference to release the results of the teacher, student and parent surveys -- posted he...

Hard on the heels of Erin Einhorn’s stories this week in the Daily News questioning whether NYC public school students’ progress from 2002 t...

September 5, 2007 (GBN News): GBN News has learned exclusively that based on this afternoon’s ARIS computer “real time" test results,...

“Tell me the result you want, and I’ll find a way to make the numbers show it." Anyone with a good feel for numbers and a background in...

As an antidote to all the PR feel-good nonsense put out by DOE, listen to the wise words of Diane Ravitch on WNYC radio today. Diane sa...

Welcome to a new school year in which all schools will be given grades of A through F -- 85% of which will be based on test scores. The p...

September 4, 2007 (GBN News): The first day of school proved to be an embarrassing one today for Chancellor Joel Klein and Mayor Michael B...