Only a third of parents at this C-graded Bronx school turned in the surveys that determine a school's "environment" grade. So how does one compare this school to others where more than 90 percent of families weighed in?
The grades are out, and so is the list of schools that might close because of them. But what’s the difference between an A and a B when the DOE grades its 1,700 schools?
Bill Gates has donated more than $5 billion to improve U.S. schools. But he sees little bang for all those bucks. What do other philanthropists—and the school systems who’ve benefited from them—think they have to show for what’s been spent?
Ronald Richter just got what the mayor calls a “thankless” job—running the Administration for Children’s Services. We asked ACS’s sometime allies and frequent critics in the advocacy world what Richter’s chief challenges will be.
The headlines are full of concerns about teacher tenure, teacher pensions, teacher layoffs. What do some of the city’s principals have to say about the challenges their schools face?
Early in the Bloomberg administration, the city put more cops and stricter rules into some of the most dangerous schools. Tracking the program’s effect is complicated by other policies that have closed, shrunk or replaced some of the targeted facilities.
With new boss Dennis Walcott, the city school system gets a new chance to improve relations with parents and teachers. But there’ll be no second chance for Robeson High in Bed-Stuy. What does that mean for students?
The recent indictment of two Administration for Children’s Services workers in the death of a Brooklyn four-year-old has focused new attention on the city’s system for detecting and stopping child abuse and neglect. In this interview, City Limits’ Helen Zelon explains how legal process and human nature interact in the child welfare system.
The Administration of Children’s Services has announced the appointment of Charles Barrios, a licensed psychotherapist with decades of service at Good Shepherd Services in Brooklyn, as Deputy Commissioner for Family Support Services.
Some students transferring to public school arrive with no educational records because a private or parochial school has withheld them until tuition debts are paid.
Few would deny that state-run juvenile detention facilities are flawed. But a Bloomberg bid to take control of some of those sites has raised a new set of issues.
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