Charter Schools
Charter Network Looking to Open New Transfer School in Queens
Zaheer Bowen and Asha MacKay |
Flushing, Whitestone, Ridgewood, Corona, Jackson Heights, Astoria and Long Island City are possible locations.
Election Watch 2018
We’ve Got Issues: The Candidates for Governor on Education
Kate Pastor |
Do we need more charter schools? Should public colleges be free? What role should tests play in the lives of students and teachers? On these and other topics, here’s where the gubernatorial candidates stand.
election 2018
Cuomo vs. Nixon on Education Policy: Testing, Charters and Money Loom Large
Kate Pastor |
The governor has shifted on several key education issues since taking office. Now he faces a long-time education advocate in the Democratic primary.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: New Chancellor Should Launch a Charter School for Homeless Students
Ralph da Costa Nunez |
‘Homeless students have a unique set of educational, physical, and emotional needs which are not being addressed in any significant or systematic way.’
Charter Schools
CityViews: Message from a ‘Failing’ School on the Brink of Closure
Dalisbeth Galvez |
In moving to close CJHS 145 in the Bronx, the authors argue, the city is ignoring the policy choices that have hindered the school’s performance—and the successes its staff and students have achieved despite those obstacles. A video op-ed.
Charter Schools
Little Data on Whether Charters Make a Difference When College is the Goal
Erica Jackson |
Some charters are too young to measure how their students perform. Others collect data in a spotty way. And official statistics make comprehensive comparisons difficult.
Chancellor Carmen Farina
What’s Behind the Bill de Blasio-Eva Moskowitz Feud Over Charters
Ruth Ford |
The mayor says he’s trying to find space for charters. The charter pioneer says he isn’t. Beyond their conflicting claims is a complicated debate over whether public schools have room, and the role charters are supposed to play there.
campaign finance
Moskowitz’s ’05 Race Sounded Alarm over Finance Practices Likely to Play Role in ’17
Jarrett Murphy |
In her last run for office, the then-councilwoman complained that outside groups were illegally coordinating with a rival’s campaign.
Education
De Blasio and the Schools, Take 2
Jarrett Murphy |
Watch NYU education expert Pedro Noguera, Students First New York organizer Tenicka Boyd and City Limits reporter Ruth Ford discuss the city’s schools, the mayor’s leadership and the battle over the Common Core on Bk Live.
Charter Schools
Hartford-to-Harlem Charter School Faces Critics Back Home
John Spina |
A Capital Preparatory Charter School will open soon in Harlem ,promising to deliver the same kind of success its founder, Steve Perry, found in Hartford. But it’s unclear whether the Connecticut school is serving the underprivileged population it will encounter in New York.
