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Baez counsels parents, principals on 40 dual language programs

February 10, 2015 - by Jennifer Luna

Milady Baez, senior executive director of the Department of English Language Learners and Student Support, addressed principals, teachers and parents at the Citywide Council of English Language Learners monthly meeting …

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Citywide PEP / Featured / News / Sub-Featured

Dozens voice opinions as PEP delays school space-sharing vote

January 30, 2015February 8, 2015 - by Kay Nguyen

Under the recommendation of Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, panel members voted to table four co-location issues.

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Tensions still simmering around two co-locations set for vote

January 27, 2015January 30, 2015 - by Jessica Husseman

Tensions over space are still running high in some city school buildings. In public hearings last week Bedford-Stuyvesant Success Academy charter parents openly clashed with those in three district schools. And a new charter proposed for a Mott Haven public school caused protests.

Published at ChalkbeatNY.

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Brownsville Youth Court and the Teens Who Run it

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 - by William Huntsberry

Brownsville is often called the highest crime neighborhood in New York City. But one youth justice program is having a positive effect on the teens that come through it and those that run it.

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Just Say Nay to the ELA

April 13, 2014May 13, 2014 - by Annette Konoske-Graf

Yesterday, critics of the state-mandated English Language Arts exam marched in front of nearly 40 schools in Manhattan.

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News / On The Beat

Author Visit from Holocaust Survivor Makes Memoir Come Alive

April 7, 2014March 25, 2020 - by Madeleine Cummings

Inge Auerbacher visits Ditmas Junior High School as part of multi-disciplinary unit on writers’ childhood war diaries and memoirs.

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College Board Attempts to Rescue the SAT by Changing the Exam

March 7, 2014April 2, 2014 - by Dartunorro Clark

The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay and will dwell less on fancy vocabulary. This also means changes in how test prep companies prepare students.| AP Photo

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Educating Prisoners

February 19, 2014February 19, 2014 - by Oghene Oyiborhoro

  This week New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his intentions establish financing for prisoners in New York. Back in 1994 the US Congress voted to cut grants for college …

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News / School Wire

Liberals Attack Common Core

February 17, 2014February 18, 2014 - by Oghene Oyiborhoro

Common Core standards have had their fair share of detractors but rarely has it faced opposition from the left – no less New York state. A recent New York Times …

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De Blasio Calls for Increases Public in Education Spending – Stiff Arms Charter Schools

February 17, 2014February 19, 2014 - by Oghene Oyiborhoro

Last week, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio made education a cornerstone of his first budget proposal as mayor. De blasio called for an expansion of education funding as part of his initial …

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