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President Reflects On Legacy At Brooklyn Campus
March 3, 2009 NY1
By Jeanine Ramirez

After serving more than 20 years at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College, President Edison Jackson has announced he will retire this summer, leaving behind a legacy that has transformed both a campus and city neighborhood. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report.
Medgar Evers College is flourishing [...]

MORE FAILING SCHOOLS PASSING THE TEST
March 3, 2009 NY Post
By Chuck Bennett

The state Department of Education removed 13 city schools from its worst-of-the-worst list yesterday, leaving just 20 in danger of closure - the lowest number since 1989, when the program was created.
Mayor Bloomberg touted the drop in failing schools as proof that his education [...]

2 Schools Bloomberg Started Cited for Poor Performance
March 3, 2009 NY Times
By Elissa Gootman

Two new schools created as part of the Bloomberg administration’s effort to replace large, abysmal high schools with collections of small schools were named Monday to the state’s list of failing schools.
The state list, known as Schools Under Registration Review, is made [...]

 
Boys and Girls Together, Taught Separately in Public School
March 11, 2009 NY Times
By JENNIFER MEDINA

Michael Napolitano speaks to his fifth-grade class in the Morrisania section of the Bronx like a basketball coach. “You — let me see you trying!” he insisted the other day during a math lesson. “Come on, faster!”
Across the hall, Larita Hudson’s [...]

Hispanics one-fifth of K-12 students
March 5, 2009 USA Today
By Hope Yen, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Roughly one-fourth of the nation’s kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023.
Census data released Thursday also showed that Hispanics make up about one-fifth of all K-12 students. Hispanics’ growth [...]