By SHARON OTTERMAN
CHICAGO — Catching up to the reality already faced by many of its members, the nation’s largest teachers’ union on Monday affirmed for the first time that evidence of student learning must be considered in the evaluations of school teachers around the country.
In passing the new policy at its [...]
By ALAN SCHWARZ
WASHINGTON — Amid one of the most contentious periods in recent memory for teachers’ unions, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, on Monday called for education reform that emanates from teachers and their communities, rather than from “those who blame teachers for everything.”
“Let’s refuse to [...]
BY Rachel Monahan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, June 26th 2011, 4:00 AM
The city Department of Education evaded state law to pay a controversial consultant $287,500, officials with the city controller’s office charge.
Even after the Education Department’s $20 million teacher-recruitment contract with The New Teacher Project got rejected in March on technical grounds, the city sneaked through [...]
BY Ben Chapman
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Friday, June 24th 2011, 4:00 AM
The Department of Education’s failure to place hundreds of kindergartners with special needs in public schools could cost the city at least $40 million, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said.
The city is on the hook for private school tuition for about 2,500 incoming kindergartners [...]
By: Lindsey Christ
Though New York City schools are being slammed with heavy budget cuts, a close look at the education budget reveals that close to $900 million will be spent on technology next fiscal year. NY1’s Lindsey Christ filed the following report.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg still calls himself the “education mayor,” but [...]
Posted By Philissa Cramer On June 28, 2011 @ 4:30 pm
A program that helps teachers pay for classroom supplies is set to be shut out of City Council funds.
For more than a quarter of a century, the council has assigned some of its discretionary funds to the Teacher’s Choice program, which gives [...]
