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One Out Of 10 NYC Students Are Homeless
The amount of homeless in NTC schools stayed stubbornly high at 114,000. This is nearly the same as the previous year with 85% of the homeless students are either Black or Hispanic and that indicates...
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Warren Leads As Biden Fades In Tight Iowa Race
It appears that Joseph Biden's money troubles and the negative press due to his son has seen him drop to fourth in the tight Iowa poll for the Democratic Presidential elections.By contrast, Elizabeth...
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Highlights Of The Chicago Teachers Contract
The Chicago teachers will average a 3.2% raise for five years with the first three years getting a 3% raise and the last two year gettingg a 3.5% raise. Moreover, for teachers who have 14 or more...
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The New York Post's Misleading Editorial
The New York Post has an editorial that blames the De Blasio administration for keeping alleged misbehaving teachers on the payroll indefinitely. The problem is that some of those teachers cited in...
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Time For Charter Schools To Dump Unwanted Students
On October 31st, school funding for the year is based on student enrollment as of that date. Once November sets in, the school funding is set. Its in November that charter schools will start to expel...
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DOE Ignores Academic Fraud
Councilman Robert Holden has asked the federal government to investigate the ramped grade fraud at the New York City schools. The clearly frustrated Councilman has tried to convince DOE officials,...
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Suspensions Drop In NYC Schools But They Are As Unsafe As Ever
The suspension rate has dropped lasr year, primarily due to the De Blasio administrator making it more difficult for principals to suspend misbehaving students and s reduction in arrests for drug...
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Senior Teachers Still Targeted
Chancellor Richard Carranza is the first Chancellor since Rudy Crew that is not antagonistic toward teachers. However, despite substantiate changes at the DOE, the majority at Tweed are still...
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Comparing Tier VI To Tier IV Pension
New Action, a UFT caucus has started a petition to improve Tier VI and I hope they succeed. Here is my post comparing Tier IV to Tier VI pensions.Pity The Tier VI Teacher.A new school year has started...
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Michael Bloomberg Officialy Joins The Democratic Presidential Race
After weeks of speculation, Michael Bloomberg has officially joined the Democratic Presidential race. By announcing his candidacy, it shows the Michael Bloomberg is quite unhappy with the present...
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Chalkbeat Ignores Some Of Bloomberg's Education Legacy
I read Chalkbeat's article on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's educational legacy and felt it did not adequately identify the negatives associated with his policies on the New York City public schools.For...
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Annual GoldenTurkey Award 2019
The annual golden turkey award goes to two people. Chancellor Richard Carranza for his ill-advised integration policy that is simply a joke and his bumbling administration who can't seem to get it...
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The Venezuela Education System Is In Collapse
Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America and had an education system that was one of the best in the Western Hemisphere. However, the price of oil dropped from $100 a barrel to $30 a...
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What Is The College Graduation Rate For NYC Students?
With the high school graduation rate increasing yearly (75.9%) and more students attending college, has the college graduation rate improved? The answer is a disappointing not really. Based on the...
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Common Core Is Rapidly Losing Favor Nationally
Back in 2010, administrators, politicians, and education reform organizations set up a working group to come up with common national education standards that would allow the Federal Deportment of...
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PS 169 Principal EuJin Tang May Have Exposed 2nd Graders To Adult Nudity
Principal EuJin Tang of Brooklyn's PS 169 decided it was a good idea for her students, who are mostly low income, recent immigrants, to learn to swim. While that was a good idea, the problem was that...
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District 28 Parents Object To The DOE Integration Plan
At a public meeting the overflowing crowd of District 28 parents vocally objected to the DOE's proposed integration plan. Not one parent liked the idea of sending their child from their neighborhood...
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Middle School Murder Suspects Go To A Poorly Performing School
The alleged murder suspects who mugged and killed 18 year old Tessa Majors attend a poorly performing middle school. According to the New York Post article. The school demographics for the latest...
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Racism Has No Place In Our Schools
At high performing Beacon High School in Manhattan, where student acceptance is based upon their middle school academics and is, for the most part, color blind, racism has reared it's ugly head.A White...
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Some NYC Schools Are Academically Failing
The New York Post had an article with a heading "Over 140 NYC schools had a 90% failure rate on State exams". The article points out the sad state of academics in the largely low income and minority...
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