Winston Clarke, the father of a Duke Ellington High School junior, speaks during a May 23, 2018, news conference in front of the school in Washington. Parents at the prestigious performing arts public school are in a fight with the office of the school superintendent, which charges that dozens of Ellington families have faked District…
Tag: Public Education
DC’s public schools go from success story to cautionary tale
June 18, 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — As recently as a year ago, the public school system in the nation’s capital was being hailed as a shining example of successful urban education reform and a template for districts across the country. Now the situation in the District of Columbia could not be more different. After a…
Department of Education donations are plummeting under de Blasio
By Bruce Golding June 18, 2018 Donations to the Department of Education’s official charity are down more than 50 percent on Mayor de Blasio’s watch — and recently generated the smallest grant to city schools in more than a decade, The Post has learned. The steady drop in annual contributions to the Fund for Public Schools…
Warren Buffett, Sara Blakely and 6 other self-made billionaires who went to public school
Nelson Ching | Getty Images Charles Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., left, and Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., attend a BYD Co. press event in China, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Zameena Mejia 10:32 AM ET Mon, 11 June 2018 Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is one of the wealthiest people in the…
Melrose teachers continue calls for fair evaluations
By Conor Powers-Smith Posted Jun 1, 2018 at 4:01 PM For the third Friday in a row, Melrose teachers demonstrated solidarity with recently released colleagues on June 1 by gathering outside schools across the city in union t-shirts before heading in for the start of classes. “The standouts or the walk-ins or however you want to characterize them are really just…
In Key Governor’s Races, Like In Colorado, Dems Split On Education
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JUN 4, 2018 A subterranean divide among Democrats between backers of teachers unions and those of charter schools and other education innovations is helping shape key gubernatorial primaries, even as red-meat issues like guns, inequality and President Donald Trump have dominated the races. In California, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s…
Teacher Evaluation Is Stuck in the Past
Race to the Top is over. Why haven’t we moved on? By Rachael E. Gabriel & Sarah L. Woulfin May 15, 2018 When President Barack Obama announced his Race to the Top competition in the summer of 2009, states across the country submitted plans for reforming standards, data use, and teacher quality to turn around their…
Education splits gubernatorial races in California, New York
June 4, 2018, 9:25 AM A subterranean divide among Democrats between backers of teachers unions and those of charter schools and other education innovations is helping shape key gubernatorial primaries, even as red-meat issues like guns, inequality and President Donald Trump have dominated the races. In California, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa‘s campaign has been…
Students have their own ideas about standardized tests
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…
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,…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 