Highschoolers weigh in on controversy about tests and teacher evaluations By Rick Karlin Updated 5:28 pm, Thursday, May 31, 2018 Albany Lawmakers, activists and teachers have been fighting for years over the role that student test scores should play when it comes to evaluating teacher performance. The fight continues this month as legislators wrangle over a bill…
Category: No Child Left Behind Act
State teachers union calls 2018 standardized testing “abusive”
Josh Bazan 6:43 PM, May 23, 2018 BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) – Computer glitches. Lost answers. Tests extending into three class days. Stressed and concerned students. These frustrations from public school teachers across New York State are outlined in a new, eye-opening report from New York State United Teachers (NYSUT). The report, called The Tyranny of Testing,…
De Blasio’s plan to diversify elite NYC high schools would admit top performers from every middle school
Mayor Bill de Blasio brought together city officials, elected leaders and Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza to seek to elminate a single test from being the only factor in deciding whether a student gets into a top high school in New York City. (Todd Maisel / New York Daily News) By CATHERINA GIOINO and ERIN DURKIN JUN 04,…
Are public schools the enemy, or the answer, to the challenges before us now?
Franklin Graham speaks during his “Decision America” California tour stop at the Fresno Fairgrounds on Monday, May 28, 2018. CRAIG KOHLRUSS Fresno Bee file BY ANDREW FIALA June 01, 2018 10:00 AM Updated June 01, 2018 10:00 AM When the Rev. Franklin Graham was in Fresno last week, he said “the enemy has gotten control of our schools,…
Detroit’s far-reaching strategy to fill its schools
Lori Higgins, May 29, 2018 Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that the report outlining the Detroit school district’s enrollment plan incorrectly states that the Berkley School District enrolled 1,000 Detroit students during the 2016-17 school year. The Berkley district does not enroll any Detroit students. After enrollment declines that saw the…
Spokane Public Schools Investing Dollars, Personnel in School Safety
Nikolas Cruz is led out of the courtroom after being arraigned at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Cruz is accused of opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14, killing 17 students and adults. BY JIM MCKAY / MAY 24, 2018 Mental health professionals, resource…
The Yellow School Bus Needs a Green Makeover
SARAH HOLDER MAY 31, 2018 The diesel-sucking dinosaurs from your childhood are due for an update. Updated: June 01, 2018 When John Wargo’s daughter was 12 years old, he started sending her off to school as any loving father would: He strapped her up to an air quality monitor, walked her to the school bus, and…
Mapping the Movement to Dismantle Public Education
BY MOLLY GOTT DEREK SEIDMAN It’s not just the Koch brothers: a state by state look at the forces driving school privatization. he ongoing wave of teacher strikes across the US is changing the conversation about public education in this country. From West Virginia to Arizona, Kentucky to Oklahoma, Colorado to North Carolina, tens of thousands of teachers have taken to the streets…
North Carolina’s Teacher Revolt Was Decades in the Making
Paul Blest and Nick Martin May 18, 2018 A derecho of red shirts swept through Raleigh, N.C. on Wednesday as thousands of teachers and their allies flooded the capitol, in defiance of the pouring rain, to demand better conditions in their state’s public schools. In a march from the headquarters of the North Carolina Association of Educators…
Betsy DeVos knows little about public education. And she doesn’t want to learn.
By Helaine Olen May 16 at 4:09 PM Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited New York City this week. And what did she learn? Nothing about public education, that’s for sure. While in New York, DeVos did not visit a single public school. Not a traditional public school, and not a charter school. DeVos, however, did make time to tour a pair…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 