Following Years Of Political Tumult, Charters Are A Non-Issue In Mayoral Race
Release Date:
10/10/2017
Four years later, as the mayor coasts toward reelection, he isn’t saying much of anything about charters.
Education
SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers
Release Date:
10/10/2017
A state group that oversees some New York charter schools has revised a hotly contested proposal to let its schools certify their own teachers ahead of Wednesday’s vote, according to an updated proposal.
No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?
Release Date:
10/06/2017
When the Every Student Succeeds Act was enacted, speculation swirled that states might use it as a launching pad to use measures of students’ social and emotional competencies to determine whether their schools are successful.
Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students
Release Date:
10/06/2017
Traveling south about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania Route 43, visitors roll into Coal Center, home to Intermediate Unit 1, a regional education service agency. Intermediate Unit 1 also serves as home to a Fab Lab — a highly...
New York’s Graduation Rate Could Drop Under New Federal Education Law
Release Date:
10/05/2017
New York state’s high school graduation rate may take a hit due to an under-the-radar provision in the new federal education law.
New York City Students Are Getting Younger
Release Date:
10/05/2017
New York City's preschool expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4-year-olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the school system over the course of two years.
Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years
Release Date:
10/05/2017
At the start of December 2014, New York Post reporter Susan Edelman sent an intriguing public records request to the city’s Department of Education. “Under the Freedom of Information [sic], I request all e-mail communications since Dec. 30, 2013...
City to Build 1,000-Seat High School in Long Island City
Release Date:
10/04/2017
The city will construct a new high school with room for nearly 1,000 students in Dutch Kills, according to the Department of Education.
Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance — attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data.
Study Finds Test-Score Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools
Release Date:
10/04/2017
Analysis from a Stanford center says that on average, charter students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading.
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