CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: CUNY Needs Funding, Not Cuts
Berkis Cruz-Eusebio |
“The mayor needs to look somewhere else to cut funding. Successful higher education programs should not be on the chopping block.”
“The mayor needs to look somewhere else to cut funding. Successful higher education programs should not be on the chopping block.”
BCS hosts its annual BCS Human Spirit Awards gala dinner Monday, June 1, 2015, at the Grand Hyatt-Manhattan Ballroom (109 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017) with inspiring honorees
Sometimes the fight’s over classroom setting, sometimes over a child eating their meals through a straw. Often it involves lawyers, frantic parents and a strained school system.
While some statistics are disputed, the high rates of teacher attrition at charter schools raise questions about whether even the most successful ones can maintain quality amid the churn.
Some parents are willing to look at locations on the west side of hazardous Third Avenue, while others want the city to consider using eminent domain.
City Limits’ award-winning education coverage touches on some of the key issues Carmen Farina will face.
With more rigorous standards for the high-school equivalency diplomas set to arrive in 2014—and get harder after that—people are racing to prep for and take the test now.
By limiting enrollment—and therefore eliminating the schools’ commitment to accept all neighborhood kids who wanted to come—DOE says it will improve students’ options.
Citing fiscal pressure, the schools want to use in-classroom libraries and parent volunteers instead of certified librarians. Critics say kids need more than that.
It’s well known that wealthy kids outperform poor kids in school, but now the rich are also pulling away from middle-class students. Why? And is class or race the key factor in how NYC school kids perform?