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Critics target the city’s eight specialized schools for using a single test to determine who gets to enter. But other selective public high-schools use a confusing mix of admissions policies…

ByGail Robinson 32Comments

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Nov 2015

Education

Manhattan Parents Press DOE on Middle-School Selection

The effort to compel the DOE to release the information is part of a years’ long effort by the Community Education Council of District 2 to turn what is often…

ByRuth Ford 0Comments

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Oct 2015

Education

Courts Keep School Meetings Closed to Public … For Now

The ruling was more of a technicality than a decision on any substantive issues, noted education activists, who believe they will ultimately prevail.

ByRuth Ford 2Comments

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Oct 2015

Opinion

NYC Students Deserve Comprehensive, Inclusive Sex Education

NYC’s Department of Education says that sex education should be taught once in a semester in middle school and once in high school, but many students are not even receiving…

ByJoan Malin 0Comments

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Oct 2015

Education

Advocates Say City Should Expand Free Lunch Faster

They want the city to add more schools to a federal program that provides free lunch to all students. But the DOE may have good reason to move slowly.

ByRuth Ford 0Comments

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Sep 2015

Education

Differing Views of Middle-School Admissions Play Out at New Manhattan Facility

Parents know a school is coming to 75 Morton Street. What they don’t know is where its students will come from.

ByRuth Ford 1Comment

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Sep 2015

Education

City Pressed to Allow Public into School Leadership Team Meetings

DOE is keeping the sessions closed while it appeals a judge’s order to open them up.

ByRuth Ford 1Comment

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Sep 2015

Education

Signs the City is Serious About Fixing Special Ed

Some advocates say the de Blasio administration has at least made an effort to listen to their concerns.

ByRuth Ford 0Comments

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Aug 2015

Education Investigations

Who Exactly is the New York City Parents Union?

The organization is involved in major lawsuits and lights up tabloid op-ed pages with criticisms of unions, elected officials, Chancellor Fariña and others. But their funding and membership are fuzzy.

ByRuth Ford 8Comments

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Jul 2015

Education

Huge Demand for Summer Art Programs to Keep Schoolkids Sharp

The students at 826NYC are hunting a murderer—in the movie script they’re writing. But finding that fictional killer will be a lot easier than many kids’ real-life hunt for art…

ByPatrick Donachie 1Comment

The Problem with NYC High-School Admissions? It’s not Just the Test

Manhattan Parents Press DOE on Middle-School Selection

Courts Keep School Meetings Closed to Public … For Now

NYC Students Deserve Comprehensive, Inclusive Sex Education

Advocates Say City Should Expand Free Lunch Faster

Differing Views of Middle-School Admissions Play Out at New Manhattan Facility

City Pressed to Allow Public into School Leadership Team Meetings

Signs the City is Serious About Fixing Special Ed

Who Exactly is the New York City Parents Union?

Huge Demand for Summer Art Programs to Keep Schoolkids Sharp

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