PS 398, named after the late labor leader Hector Figueroa, is roiled by a battle between its staff and principal.
Education
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.
Posted inUnions
School Therapists Want a Better Contract Deal. The UFT Wants Them to Give Up.
Union president Michael Mulgrew is pressing occupational and physical therapists to vote again on a deal they rejected — while some members demand new negotiations with City Hall instead.
Posted inEducation
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 inEducation
PLACE-Endorsed Candidates Win Nearly 40% of Seats on NYC’s Parent Councils
Advocates for testing-based school admissions secured a say in district-level school governance.
Posted inEducation, Public Schools, Schools
New York Schools Ditch Social-Emotional Screening Tool
Teachers and parents raised concerns about the DESSA, a social-emotional learning tool that schools began using last year.
Posted inEducation, Public Schools, Schools
Summer Rising Program Rejected 45,000 Applicants, Launching Scramble for Child Care
New York City’s free, popular summer program runs for children in grades K-8 across the five boroughs from July to August.
Posted inEducation
Success Academy Calls 911 on Students in Mental Health Crisis, Writing Its Own Rules
Families say publicly funded, privately run charter schools in New York are allowed to punish and discriminate against students by calling in emergency services.
Posted inBrooklyn
Seven School Gyms Are Housing Migrants or Could Soon. Parents and Pols Are Pushing Back
Some 500 asylum-seekers slept in a school gym on Staten Island over the weekend. By Monday city officials had identified six more gyms, all in Brooklyn, to cope with an evolving emergency.