CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: UFT Defends its New Contract Deal with De Blasio
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‘Teachers and other UFT professionals will be making up their own minds about how well the agreement represents their interests.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: New UFT Contract Will Ease Excesses of DOE’s Evaluation System
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‘Sometimes teachers approach me in tears, describing things that happened in their observations that ought not to have happened.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: New Teachers’ Contract is a Missed Opportunity
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‘At almost every turn, the contract benefits the Department of Education and does little to improve the lot of the vast majority of union members.’
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NYC’s Special Education System Feels the Impact of Teacher Shortages
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In addition to the staff shortages, District 75 has a teacher-absentee rate exceeding the rate of New York City teacher absenteeism citywide, according to federal data.
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Educators Linger in the Misunderstood ‘Teacher Reserve,’ a Byproduct of School Reforms
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Most members of the Absent Teacher Reserve aren’t there for disciplinary lapses. Many are trapped by a combination of reforms that put experienced teachers on the sideline and made it costly for principals to get them back in the game.
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Comptroller, Special Investigator and Private Firm Now Probing SchoolFood
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Bad pizza. Questionable chicken. Moldy bread. Pricey cereal. And now at least three inquiries, with a possible fourth one by DOI in the works.
EDUCATION
Ambitious Brooklyn School Desegregation Plan Stirs Excitement, Faces Hurdles
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Brooklyn’s District 15 is trying to chart a new path toward equity with an ambitious plan to end admissions screens for middle schools. The reaction to the plan highlights the complexities of choice and process the rest of the city might someday face.
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What Role do Middle Schools Play in Deciding Who Gets Into NYC’s Elite High Schools?
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It is clear that most students get on – or off – the track to go to a specialized high school long before they sit down to take the SHSAT in September of 8th grade. See how the middle schools rank.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: There is a Model for Making NYC’s Specialized High Schools More Diverse
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‘The enrichment gap is less a gap of rich and poor—both groups are served for preparation for the SHSAT—and more one of the lower-middle class, minority student.’
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CityViews: As City’s Sikhs Celebrate, They Hope for New Action to Stop Bullying
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‘Chancellor Carranza must embrace a global multi-cultural curriculum that optimizes the study of groups that have been previously ignored. And our Sikh community must be included in such a curriculum. ‘