Education Reporting in NYC
Caught in the middle of a school reform battle over closures and phase-outs are the students, staff and administrators whose lives and educational careers are disrupted. These are their stories.
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When Believe Southside’s charter was revoked in June 2012, Tonia Hucey had to find a new school for her son, Skylar. Here is their story.
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Nikhil Goyal is the 17-year-old author of 2012’s One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student’s Assessment of School, a book that takes an exhaustive look at the U.S. school system and gives suggestions on how to transform it.
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Like their counterparts at the 49 other schools in New York City that were closing or phasing out in 2012, Believe Southside’s staff and students were forced into transition. Here is that story from the perspective of Believe Southside’s principal, Shannon Browne.
Read MoreThat’s the question an educator posed in a New York Times Letter to the Editor on April 29, 2013. The Times then invited readers to respond to the letter written …
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The web is helping journalism teachers in the city and nation create engaging lessons for a school subject that’s long suffered from unpopularity.
Read MoreAt a press conference today at the Bloomingdale Family Program on the Upper West Side, several parents announced that they would be boycotting the high-stakes standardized testing, which begins in …
Read MoreBilingual SEIT, a New York City special ed pre-K provider lost its contract with the NYC Department of Education after years of misusing funds and providing poor service, reports the …
Read MoreFollowing the indictment in Atlanta of 34 public school employees and former School Superintendent Beverly A. Hall in a cheating scandal, PBS education reporter John Merrow has published “Michelle Rhee’s …
Read MorePresident Barack Obama released his budget proposal for 2014 yesterday. The budget includes increases in Pell Grants and spending on Federal Work-Study and job-training programs at community colleges, reports the …
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