I found the Tilden HS quality review as well as a few others on the DOE website by doing a search -- though I can't find a link to the individual quality...
Happy New Year; I hope you had a refreshing holiday break. Below is the first in a series David Andreatta of the NY Post is doing on the crisis in our middle...
There was a story that years ago one of the European countries found that most of the injuries in train accidents occurred in the last car. The solution was to...
This article from the Times includes this admission from DoE on problems with overcrowding and class size: "David Cantor, a spokesman for the city's Department...
Spitzer's first State of the State speech will be aired today on NY1 -- watch it if you can. Mayor's top education priority for Spitzer -- raising the cap on...
The quality reviews are only the reports of the "expert review teams"--the comments from parents, teachers, etc. will come later, after the surveys are ...
thanks for this, Mary-Powel; there indeed is supposed to be a parent survey later in the year, which will be a separate part of the evaluation process. Yet...
I can tell you in one instance, they said they spoke with our parents, but no one who was officially elected. Guess they stopped a parent on the stairs to...
I am the recording secretary of the John Bowne PTA (and an outspoken one at that). Anyone who volunteered from the PTA was NOT approached to actually speak to...
Karen Koenig
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Jan 3, 2007 6:07 pm
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Just a quick note to let you know that a group of parents were invited to NY1's studio this afternoon to watch Spitzer's first State of the State address, and...
The DOE news summary looks weird today but is still readable; now the NY Times as well as the NY Post is running a series about the problems of middle schools....
Sorry to bother you again, but NY1 is doing a show about Spitzer's speech at 9 PM tonight; you can call in at 1-866-ny1-talk or email your comments to ...
See message from John Lawhead of Tilden HS below; John makes lots of excellent observations, among them the generally good performance of the principal (a...
An interesting post below from Peter Goodman on the UFT website, Edwize - pointing out, among other things, that Tilden HS received $2,739 less per pupil than...
If you'd like to read the transcript or watch the video clip of Class Size Matters members reacting to Wednesday's State of the State address by Governor...
the national teacher data base described in the USA Today story is online at http://www.nctq.org/cb/ it compares salaries, calendars etc for teachers at the...
Spitzer already backing off big figure for statewide school aid. Friday, January 05, 2007 INDEX Gov. backs off $8.5B school aid Spitzer no longer endorses a...
This looks really exciting! ... From: Teh-Yuan Wan Cc: Donald Jacobs ; Ellen Meier ; Anthony Schilling ; Alan Silverman ; Bernard McInerney ; Carol Litrides ;...
Jon Moscow
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Jan 6, 2007 2:30 pm
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NY Daily News School at toxic site is pushed New York Minute Aides to Mayor Bloomberg are waging a weekend push to win approval for the construction of a $230...
Can anyone get a hold of the last two issues of DOE's Principal's Weekly? Apparently they contain links to new documents outlining recent changes made to the...
here is the most recent PW; this one doesn't seem to mention the new suspension provisions. We still need the one from the week before. It does contain a note...
Joel Klein, Esq. NYC Eductaion Department Dear Mr. Klein, I read in the Principal's Weekly how important you consider the Discipline Code to be, and how much...
Eugene Falik
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Jan 7, 2007 12:26 am
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The NY Times is missing in action, in relation to the education priorities of the Governor and the Mayor. Whether this reflects the fact that few if any of...
The administration is still trying to push through a plan to build four new schools on contaminated land in the Bronx - despite agreeing in mid-December to...
two stories in today’s NY Sun about Spitzer looking to lift the cap on charters as long as he satisfies the UFT demand that these schools can unionize, and...
Good stories in both the Daily news today and the Staten Island Advance today about the new high school class size information, released almost two months...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007 INDEX Democrats Push for Changes to No Child Left Behind Law New York Times WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 - Democratic Congressional leaders on...
Top Stories http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1 <http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=65748> &aid=65748 City Council Committee OKs...
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