School enrollment is going down to the wire.
Parents can’t get the Department of Education to answer the phone.
Some charter schools have already started.
Funding drops for after-school programs . . .
. . . and rises for prekindergarten programs . . .
. . . while the program paying public school students to get good test scores gets covered in Newsweek.
SAT scores slip.
A federal judge upholds New York City’s metal bat ban.
Khalil Gibran International Academy is almost full . . .
. . . while two new schools in Bensonhurst are underenrolled.
More school seats are coming to Queens.
Meet Marcia Lyles, Deputy Chancellor for Teaching and Learning.
Weighing in on cell phones in city schools . . .
. . . merit pay for teachers . . .
. . . and teacher retention.
No Child Left Behind revisions get proposed.
And here are some back-to-school statistics.
3 Comments:
1 MichaelB
· Aug 29, 2007 at 10:27 pm
It wasn’t in today’s paper, but I read in the Daily News(?) this week a quote from Randi Weingarten saying that the UFT is not opposed to extending the school year.
Could someone please clarify the union’s position on this?
2 Steve Perez
· Aug 30, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I think this quote from the Daily News is the one you’re thinking of -
– which shouldn’t be taken as an endorsement for mandating a longer school year for all teachers.
3 MichaelB
· Aug 30, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Thanks,I read out of context the sentence that preceded your quote: “United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said it wasn’t the union that objected to a longer school year.”
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