Health Care Reform Flatlined. But Lawmakers Aren’t Giving Up
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... is done with health care. On Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education , Labor and Pensions Committee kicks off the first ...
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After Blasting Success’s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... few months have been marked by friction between the State Education Department and SUNY, Success Academy’s ...
NYC Denies Nearly 9,000 Kids with Disabilities The Services They Need
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... therapy and counseling, according to figures the city Education Department supplied. State law requires city ...
Inside The NYC Schools Critics Call ‘Failure Factories’
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... Four did so poorly that the city Department of Education closed them in June. . . Inside The NYC Schools ...
NYC and Studio Team Up to Keep Music Industry Humming
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... Team Up to Keep Music Industry Humming Berklee, a music education program, is taking over a legendary New York ...
Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health
Release Date:
09/08/2017
ThriveNYC is a coordinated system of 54 initiatives, estimated to cost $850 million over four years.
City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... in the midst of a citywide surge in student homelessness. Education Department officials said it will cost the city $17 ...
Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids
Release Date:
09/11/2017
Increased efforts by federal immigration agents to deport undocumented immigrants have nonprofit officials worried that those clients may stop seeking services for fear of being swept up in a deportation raid. President Trump’s decision to end...
New York’s Most Controversial Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a Little Easier To Pass
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... teachers to pass a tough new exam, the state’s top education policy makers are lowering the score needed to ...
New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-leaning education -focused think tank, in a study on teacher ...
Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... the cash-strapped school district. The Buffalo Board of Education Wednesday approved, 8-0, a three-year deal with the ...
More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... group Class Size Matters. Despite the Department of Education ’s addition of more seats and new buildings, many ...
Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials killed an experimental pay ...
With A New School Year Underway, Hundreds of Teaching Positions Remain Unfilled In New York City
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... openings. Still, they indicate a critical need for special- education teachers and paraprofessionals, teaching assistants ...
How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... a family in the United States, regardless of income or education , has become yet another part of American life ...
Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows
Release Date:
09/28/2017
Americans who were left behind as the country pulled out of the Great Recession — African Americans, Hispanics and people without college degrees — saw large gains in net worth over the past three years, the Federal Reserve reported.
How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... thought hard about whether to use an image of the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, in her entry to this ...
Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project
Release Date:
10/03/2017
The Kessler Foundation, of East Hanover, NJ, has just awarded Reeves-Reed Arboretum a grant for $8,000 towards the completion of the first phase of this ambitious project.
Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... absenteeism to measure schools under ESSA, the federal education law. “In that regard, I don’t think chronic ...
Study Finds Test-Score Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... schools. Released Wednesday by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, the study found ...