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NYC Schools Overwhelmed: 30,000 New Students From Undocumented Families Strain Resources Amid Budget Cuts.
New York City educators will face new restrictions on handcuffing or suspending students as part of a regulations proposed education department.
There are a couple of cool tech innovations to look out for in 2015 classrooms.
But it all comes down to how well the programs will be executed.
Seven years after the recession New York schools finally recovered from repeated budget cuts, but only to find themselves in the same dreadful state they were in when the recession hit.
New York City Parents can apply to serve on the Department of Education’s 2015 Community and Citywide Education Council, which gives parents a voice in public education.
The decades-long ban on cellphones is to be lifted in New York City schools in two months, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.
Some of the city’s most struggling schools just got more help. Many of them were paired with non-profits that should help them solve their problems. And the city is covering the bill—$52 million for 4 years at 45 schools.
There’s seven things struggling public schools can do to turn around, according to New York City Charter Schools Center. The charter school support organization released a brief paper Thursday listing seven methods charter schools widely use to boost their students’ chances of academic success.
NEW YORK—Anticipation lingered in the air on Saturday as a crowd of parents thronged the Brooklyn Technical High School, one of the eight specialized public high schools in the city that require a single academic test to get in.
NEW YORK—Barnard College began in 1889 with a class of 14 young women taking classes at a rented brownstone on Madison Ave.
Rookie New York mayor Bill de Blasio – poster child for America’s insurgent progressives – has promised to rewrite “a tale of two cities”.
NEW YORK—Diana Acevedo loves school uniforms. They are so convenient and she ends up paying only about half of what she would pay for regular clothes—for her 10-year-old son that is.
NEW YORK—There’s something wholesome about being ready. It’s tied deep down to our notion of parenting. After all, we can’t live our children’s lives for them, so the next best thing would be to make them ready—ready to make the right decisions, make a living, and perhaps find happiness.
NEW YORK—It was a massive undertaking for large New York City charter school networks this Thursday. Instead of taking students to school, buses took thousands of students and their parents to Foley Square, just a block away from City Hall, for a rally a long time in the making.
