Decision ‘09: Schools chancellor Joel Klein becomes an issue unto himself as wanna-bes pounce
BY Erin Einhorn
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU
Thursday, July 23rd 2009, 4:00 AM
Look out, Joel Klein! There’s a target on your back.
In an election year full of unknown candidates with similar politics, the controversial schools chancellor is fast emerging as a [...]
July 23, 2009
Thompson Continues to Challenge Mayor’s Claims of Success in Schools
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
How do you beat a candidate who is on television at all hours, has already spent $37 million on his campaign and floods mailboxes with photos of smiling children to promote his education record?
After months of running an under-the-radar mayoral [...]
Comptroller-DOE feud takes center stage at audit announcement
Posted By Philissa Cramer On July 22, 2009 @ 12:02 pm In Newsroom | 5 Comments
Comptroller William Thompson is releasing his second education audit in two days right now, this time focusing on testing conditions and oversight in the city schools. Also for the second time in two [...]
July 22, 2009
Comptroller Questions Graduation Rate
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
The New York City comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., released a report on Tuesday suggesting that the city’s graduation rate was inflated, saying he had found instances where it appeared schools had wrongly changed student grades and improperly awarded credit.
But Mr. Thompson, a candidate for mayor, [...]
Community Meeting Discusses Women Immigrants’ Challenges
By Stephanie Lam
Epoch Times Staff Jul 15, 2009
NEW YORK—New America Media (NAM), an ethnic media coalition, is hosting community meetings each day this week in five cities across the U.S. In the third community meeting on Wednesday, pollster Sergio Bendixen presented NAM’s newly released report on women [...]
Shamefully low graduation rates
2009-07-22 El Diario NY
The debates over publ ic schools have included a missed deadline around mayoral control, a push for concrete parental engagement and lately, a lot of name-calling between Mayor Bloomberg and state legislators. Shamefully, little attention or action has been paid to the status of English Language Learners [...]
