‘If you just look at the data, we’re good,’ says one expert. ‘But if you look at the actual breakout of the teacher turnover rate, it is significantly higher in communities of color.’
There’s disagreement on how to measure chronic teacher absenteeism, and the causes of it are more complicated than you might assume. But there’s no denying big disparities in absentee rates—even among schools in the same district.
With one charter-revision vote this fall and another process just beginning, an effort is underway to get city students to be a force for change.
Across the city, state and nation, students deal with missing teachers every day. It’s a multifaceted problem whose impact on school performance is often overlooked in the debates about education policy.
The city is aging, and its older population includes many thousands of people who have never learned English, posing a large challenge to society that current resources are ill-equipped to solve.
Bad pizza. Questionable chicken. Moldy bread. Pricey cereal. And now at least three inquiries, with a possible fourth one by DOI in the works.
The DOE went to great lengths to promote a healthy cereal brand that cost a lot and that, some evidence suggests, kids didn’t like very much, but which has garnered millions in investment since its debut in NYC schools.
But with desegregation an increasingly urgent goal, how long will it last?
The governor has shifted on several key education issues since taking office. Now he faces a long-time education advocate in the Democratic primary.
Most teenagers cannot attend summer classes, jobs or internships unless they’re supplied with a MetroCard or are able to pay for one themselves.