Parents are calling for the ouster of the controversial principal of P.S. 398 in Queens, who did not inform them on the day that a student brought a kitchen knife to school and told other kids he intended to use it at lunchtime to attack a fellow second-grader he may have considered a romantic rival. […]
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Posted inCity Department of Education, David Banks, Eric Adams
Eric Adams Ordered NYC Schools to Shelter in Place Due To Flooding. No One Told Principals.
The first time many school administrators heard about a shelter-in-place directive was when a top Education Department official emailed at 1:56 p.m.to tell them it “has been lifted.”
Posted inPublic Schools
NYC’s High School Admissions Process Opens Oct. 3. Here’s What Families Should Know.
The complex and controversial process can be daunting, here’s some information that can help.
Posted inEducation
NYC Public Schools Tested 1,500 Students For Risk of Dyslexia After Mayor Adams Push
Students in 133 schools that serve about 63,000 students were given secondary screeners during the last school year that identify students who are at risk of dyslexia or other reading challenges. The effort, while relatively small, is set to be expanded.
Posted inPublic Schools
Enrollment Drop and Fiscal Cliff Loom as NYC Starts School Year
Five things to watch out for as classes begin for the city’s more than 900,000 public school students.
Posted inSchools
City Education Officials Let Failing Yeshivas Languish for Years, Newly Released Records Show
Letters obtained by THE CITY via lawsuit show the Department of Education concluded as early as 2018 that some religious schools stinted on secular education but didn’t intervene. Those four schools still fail to meet the bar, the city recently determined.
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Federal Judge Orders NYC to Fix Special Education Service and Payment Delays
The Department of Education must take 40 specific actions to resolve decades-old delays in providing or paying for special education services to students.
Posted inYeshivas
Eighteen Yeshivas Are Failing To Provide Secular Education, City Finds
Detailed reports show significant deficiencies at four schools, including no English instruction at all. The Department of Education is fighting to keep similar findings sought in a lawsuit by THE CITY under wraps.
Posted inTeachers
Teachers Union and Mayor Reach Tentative Agreement on Raises, Remote Learning
City schools’ 120,000 educators and other staff will see raises reaching more than 20% during the five-year contract.
Posted inEric Adams
Adams Praises Yeshivas as City Hall Fights to Conceal School Assessments
The mayor said that the public system that’s failing to educate Black and brown kids should be “duplicating” what the Jewish religious schools are achieving. But his administration is battling to keep evaluations of 26 such schools under wraps.