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Another Example Of Academic Fraud
It seems every month there is an article in the newspapers dealing with academic fraud and this month there is an article by Susan Edelman of the New York Post about school administrators at Parkside...
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Bloomberg's Stop And Frisk Policy Caused A Negative Educational Effect on...
Chalkbeat has an article on a study that showed that "Stop and Frisk" under Mayor Michael Bloomberg resulted in a rise in Black male dropout rates. The study was for the years 2008 to 2012, when...
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Homeless Students Increase Nationwide
The homeless population has increased nationwide, with California leading the pack, dramatically increased by 50% over the last five years. However, less noticeable has been the corresponding rise in...
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The Pan American Discrimination Case Finally Ends
The DOE settled their last case that totaled $1.2 million dollars to discrimination lawsuits against Black educators who then Principal Minerva Zanca of Pan American High School in Queens discriminated...
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School Arrests Are Down But Are Schools Safer?
The De Blasio administration was happy that the NYPD reported a decrease of 55% in arrest of students. However, that does not make the schools safer since the decrease was based on school...
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The TDA Withdrawal is Exempt From State And City Taxes
This post is a reminder that once the educator reaches 55 years of age and retires, all TDA withdrawals are exempt from New York State and City taxes. Just like our regular teacher pension, the retiree...
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Chancellor Carranza's Folly
Chancellor Richard Carranza oversaw the well deserved demise of the ill-fated "Renewal Schools"program but he has replaced it with a more undeserving program called the "Academic Response Team"...
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Class Size, ATRs, And Fair Student Funding
The City Council held a meeting on class size and advocates, like Class Size Matters, recommended that 1,000 additional teachers be hired to reduce class sizes. Interestingly, there are approximately...
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10% Of Schools Lack A School Nurse
The DOE and Principals have contributed to the school nurse shortfall as 10% of the schools lack a school nurse and with a potential coronavirus epidemic on the horizon. The DOE is responsible to...
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Why Don't Schools Have Hand Sanitizers?
The DOE is responsible not only in funding and hiring school nurses but should be supplying all schools with adequate toiletries and especially hand sanitizers. Again if the DOE is failing in their...
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Governor Andrew Cuomo Orders The Schools To Close For 24 Hours If A child Or...
Governor Andrew Cuomo orders a school to close for 24 hours and the school get treated before the.school can reopen if a child or staffer gets the coronavirus. How that affects NYC schools is...
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Taiwan's Simple Method For Testing For The Coronavirus
Taiwan has come up with a simple method for identifying the beginning of the coronavirus. The method requires the individual to wake up in the morning and hold your breath for at least ten secondz and...
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My Idea To Force The City To Close Schools
UFT President Michael Mulgrew hasdecided to sue the City to close the schools to protect the health of students and to their families. Already on Friday the school attendance was only 58% and expect...
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DOE's Remote Learning Is A Joke
The DOE has hastily pushed teachers to set up Google classroom so that students can do remote learning and I expect the results will be disastrous. I can't see many students having the discipline to...
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All State And Federal Tests Are Cancelled
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has cancelled all standardized tests for this year for grades 3 to 8 and the high school Regents (Its just a matter of time). In addition, President...
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Mayor De Blasio , I'm Not The Blame
Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to come on the television and blames the President for the problems with the City actions on combating the coronavirus. However, he seems to ignore his many failures in...
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How Many DOE Employees Have The Coronavirus?
Yesterday the NYPD stated that more than 200 of it's employees have the conronavirus. However, the DOE has not seemed fit to do the same. Yet hundreds, if not thousands of students go into the...
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Did The Mayor And Chancellor Put NYC Students And Staff At Risk?
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Mayor and Chancellor has put students and staff at risk by first delaying closing the schools a week earlier then they did. then forcing school staff to come...
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How Many Students Are Participating In Remote Learning?
The DOE is hastily trying to give every student a laptop to participate in the Google classroom remote learning program. However, many students have not received a laptop to participate in the remote...
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Hello Coronavirus, Goodbye Easter Vacation
Governor Andrew Cuomo cancelled Easter vacation for schools throughout New York State and now New York City teachers only will get April 9th (Holy Thursday) and April 10th (Good Friday) off. The next...
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