The Max & Murphy Show
DOE Chancellor on What’s Next for City Schools Amid COVID
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A leading anti-hunger advocate also joined Max & Murphy to talk about how SNAP benefits and food pantries can be reinforced to address COVID’s economic fallout.
chinatown
School Absences Rise in Chinatown Amid Coronavirus Epidemic
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At P.S. 124, the Yung Wing School in Chinatown, where more than 90 percent of students are Asian, more than 50 – or 10 to 15 percent of students – missed school on March 10.
Brooklyn
Schools, Landmarks and Ecology Are the Focus as Gowanus Awaits Next Rezoning Steps
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Advocates and elected officials are taking steps to prepare for the changes likely to come by landmarking historic sites, calling for a designated “eco-district” and raising concerns about school integration around the Brooklyn canal.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: DOE’s Desegregation Plans Offer Hope, Need Improvement
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‘While the DOE’s initial plans are encouraging, they fall short of what’s needed to dismantle the entrenched segregation in our schools.’
Bronx
DOE Deals With Parent Worries About Plans to Merge Two Bronx Middle Schools This Fall
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At a recent meeting, parents and students expressed their concern about the effects that the merger may have on the students’ education and even their safety.
3-k
Teachers Push De Blasio for Pre-K Pay Equity as New Era for System Approaches
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The de Blasio administration is moving to consolidate and expand its birth-to-five education programs. Will it take this opportunity to address a yawning gap between what city teachers and their nonprofit counterparts make?
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.’
absences
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.