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Schools Still Practicing Academic Fraud
I have been posting about academic fraud for years, you can read them Here. Now the esteemed columnist, Susan Edelman of the New York Post, wrote an eye opening article about the grade inflation tha...
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Comparing An Apple To An Orange
District 9 of the Bronx, a high poverty and minority neighborhood, saw over 50% of the students fail the Algebra I Regents. Moreover, only 2% reached the top tier scores By contrast Success Academy...
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The Carranza Hypocrites
Chancellor Richard Carranza's prime objective is to integrate schools, by any means possible. However, the Chancellor's integration policy seems not to apply to his top level cronies. According to...
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More Speed Cameras Rolling Out, More Money For The City
New York City will start rolling out more speed cameras and will have 720 by June of 2020. The hours of operation will expand from 6am to 10pm weekdays. This is an expansion from 7am to 4pm on school...
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New York State Wants To Drop High School Regents Exams
After 150 years the New York Education Department gave an outline of a proposal to the State Board of Regents that is entertaining the notion of dropping the high school Regents exams and replacing it...
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Chinese-American Community Rise Up Due To The SHSAT Debate
Until Nayor Bill de Blasio and his Chancellor, Richard Carranza, pushed to eliminate the SHSAT by claiming it was a "racist" test and anybody supporting it was "racist", the East Asian community was...
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Will The Chancellor's Desegregation Plan Cause "White Flight?"
Chancellor Richard Carranza has proposed a school integration plan that will desegregate schools. While the idea is goal worthy, the results may not be. It may cause "White Flight" when they only...
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The Union Must Negotiate With The Chancellor To Eliminate Danielson
New York City is the only New York State district that evaluates teachers by using the Charlotte Danielson rubric. This evaluation tool, when used appropriately by fair-minded administrators, the...
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This District 75 School's Students Are Treated Like S--T By The DOE
PS 9 in Maspeth Queens is a District 75 school that has students with severe disabilities. These students. They cn be autistic, emotionally disturbed, or mentally retarted. Some have more than one...
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DOE Must Get The Lead Out
An investigation found 938 NYC classrooms, which includes many of the youngest students, are in classrooms that had lead paint levels that were considered a health risk. High levels of lead are...
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Is The DOE Discriminating Against Jewish Teachers?
Chancellor Carranza and his DOE administrators are being accused of being anti-White and while I believe he and his top administrators are misguided, I don't believe they are anti-White. Read my...
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The City Snookered The UFT On Parental Leave
Despite UFT leadership's claim that they negotiated a great deal with the City on parental leave for its members, the truth is that the City get the better deal as the UFT was forced to self fund the...
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Why Does Chalkbeat Believe That Educators 4 Excellence Represents Teachers?
Chalkbeat wrote an articlethat showed the 33% of New York City teachers have not made up their minds about Chancellor Richard Carranza. However, the survey was done before the Chancellor came under...
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Poor Areas Losing Public And Catholic School Students To Charters
In the poorer sections of New York City many public schools are losing students to charter schools. In fact, many private Catholic schools, that cater to low income families have closed or in danger...
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DOE Finally Removes The Hillcrest High School Principal
It only took five years but the DOE finally removed the Principal of Hillcrest High School. The Principal, David Morrison, was found to have committed academic fraud by passing and graduating...
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Chancellor Carranza's Cronies Grab Salary Raises As High As 35%
Chancellor Richard Carranza approved raises as high as 35% for his cronies while the teachers negotiated raises of a messily 2% this year. How can the Chancellor justify such outrageous raises when he...
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Can Teachers Lose Their Pension?
Detective Daniel Pantaleo lost his pension because he didn't have 20 years in the pension system as a New York City police officer (he had 13 years). Mr. Pantaleo can only recover the money he...
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Charter Schools Cause Cutbacks In Hempstead Public Schools
One of the poorest school districts on Long Island is Hempstead in Nassau County. The heavily minority community is plagued with gangs, (MS-13) illegal immigrants, and a relatively high crime rate...
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Will The ATR Pool Change?
It's another year and while Chancellor Richard Carranza has made some administrative changes at the DOE, he has made no real changes when it comes to the ATR pool. The DOE has tried to encourage...
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Why The TDA's Fixed Income Fund Is So Popular
One of the best perks New York City teacher,s have is the Tax Deferred Annuity (TDA) , Due to a quirk in New York State tax law, the TDA is treated as a public pension and is not subject to State and...
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