Education Reporting in NYC
The 2019-2020 school year has basically ground to a halt for many special education students, but for 20-year-old student Kristina “Krissy” Krotzer, the coronavirus all-school shut down could mean an …
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Many mandated services to the city’s 200,000 children with disabilities of these services cannot be provided online. Parents worry their special needs children are not receiving the free and appropriate education required by law.
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For the first time in nearly 100 years, New York City public schools were on track to alter their “abysmally low” number of buildings that meet the needs of hundreds of students with physical disabilities. Then came Covid-19.
Read MoreOnly 84.3% of students have had some kind of daily interactions with their schools, according to data released by the New York City education department. [Chalkbeat]
Read MoreIn an interview, the chancellor described new efforts to promote school diversity. This summer, schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña started a new ritual: Every third Saturday of the month, she sits …
Read MoreAfter allegations of misuse of student funds at Marinello Schools of Beauty, the U.S. Department of Education is creating a new unit to investigate similarly fraudulent spending at colleges. The Department …
Read MoreThe nation’s teachers have been unfairly blamed for the state of education, said John King, acting U.S. Secretary of Education, in a speech in Philadelphia. King admitted the USA’s education debate over …
Read MoreA city-wide system designed to track students with disabilities and help the city get reimbursed for their services has been a failure, said advocate Letitia James, in a lawsuit against the …
Read MoreProponents and critics of inBloom, an educational-software company that collected student data, continue to offer reasons for last week’s announcement that it is closing. The company, funded by a $100 …
Read MoreTeachers and administrators are taking on leading roles in opting students out of standardized tests.
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