‘Fair’ Funding For City Schools

Written by John DeSio on January 24, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein (pictured) offered reporters a better picture of his new school funding formula this afternoon. The plan, called "Fair Student Funding," will change the City’s school funding formula to account for other mitigating factors that are not currently included in funding projections. Those factors include low academic performance, poverty, special education
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NYC Middle Schools Fail To Impress

Written by Kari Milchman on January 16, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

A study by the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice, an organization of parent advocacy groups, was released today, asserting that the city’s middle schools are being neglected, staffed with inferior teachers and receiving unequal resources and course offerings. Further, the report says that Bloomberg’s education reforms just plum ignore middle schools, contributing to a crisis
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City Schools Struggling

Written by Kari Milchman on January 11, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Education officials said yesterday that the number of city schools flunking state standards has climbed due to the addition of 51 schools to its list of failing institutions (otherwise known as those that have yet to be successful). The state found 699 of its schools to be lacking, that’s about one in eight, and 421
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Principal Is No Pal When It Comes to Spelling

Written by Kari Milchman on January 11, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Student spelling bees are pretty damn hardcore it seems, as a Brooklyn principal purportedly refused to allow one of her students participate because he’s special ed … and what, wouldn’t be competitive enough? Eighth-grader Lammare St. Phard from School 252 in East Flatbush charged that the principal told him he’d make the school look bad
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Making NYC More Attractive to Tourists

Written by Kari Milchman on January 5, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Everybody smile, here’s something else that will attract even more tourists to our fair city. Visitors to the Top of the Rock Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center can now rent a cell phone-size, interactive tour-guide device called CityShow, which uses a Global Positioning System to point out various landmarks. It also provides users with useful
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Another Reason to Fear School

Written by Kari Milchman on January 5, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

A new report shows that school investigators accused New York City teachers, principals and other school workers of more crimes in 2006 than in any other recent year. Special schools investigator Richard Condon made 259 allegations last year, 101 of which were turned over to federal and state prosecutors for potential criminal probes. In 2005,
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Schools Ban Cells, Now What?

Written by Kari Milchman on January 4, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

School officials in New York are in a quandary over what to do with all the cell phones students aren’t allowed to bring to class. Ahhhh! Perhaps they should have thought about that before the nation’s largest school system decided to ban the mobile phone. Options include special lockers built outside the building for cell
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2006: Public Schools Get Dirtier, Pervier

Written by John DeSio on January 4, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Today, the office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation (SCI) for the city school district released its annual report outlining just how many cases it handled in 2006, and what those cases meant. In 2006, SCI received 2,552 total complaints, up 38% from 1,849 in 2005. When it came to sexual abuse reports, always the
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Another One Bites The Dust

Written by Kari Milchman on January 2, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Coliseum Books, across from Bryant Park, is going out of business for good this time. Sigh. They will be closing their doors on Jan. 6 and must sell all merchandise prior to that. So if you want a bit of history—bookshelves, or even those things you put on them—stop by while there’s still time. Just
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EXCLUSIVE: CARRION TO REPLACE HEVESI

Written by John DeSio on December 22, 2006. Posted in Education, Posts

ORIGINALLY POSTED 12/21/2006

According to several sources, when Comptroller Alan Hevesi resigns it is Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr., who will take his place. Several sources both in and out of Albany have told NY Press that Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the two men who control the process of picking Hevesi’s replacement, have decided that Carrion is the perfect consensus candidate for the post.

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