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NY Post, Parents, educators beg NYC to allow shorter days for tots starting 3-K, pre-K: ‘Cruel and abusive’ https://nypost.com/2024/08/24/us-news/parents-educators-beg-nyc-to-allow-shorter-days-for-tots-starting-3-k-pre-k-cruel-and-abusive/ Daily News, Mayor Adams backs off proposed NYC school cellphone ban for now www.nydailynews.com/2024/08/27/mayor-adams-backs-off-proposed-nyc-school-cellphone-...

Second  City Teachers - Jim Vail New AFT Pension Report Calls Out Private Equity Firms’ Labor Practices Fighting The Harmful Impacts Of Private Equity On Our Economy, Public Pension Funds And Healthcare System

Class Size Matters, Letter to NY State Education Commissioner about lack of detail and lax timetable in NYC School Capital Plan https://classsizematters.org/nycs-updated-school-capital-plan-lax-timetable-no-specifics-for-how-they-will-meet-the-mandate-for-class-size-reduction/ Washington Post, Governor Tim Walz record on Education https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/08/harris-vp-walz-e...

Second City Teachers NYC Retirees Copay and Mayor Adams update - NYC Retirees Youtube

Daily News, Travel restrictions on NYC students to ease as MTA replaces student MetroCards with OMNY, https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/25/nyc-to-replace-student-metrocards-with-omny-expand-time-and-free-trips/?share=rrccxrhn2mecnhstpiwe NY Times, New York Bans Realistic Active Shooter Drills in Schools, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/nyregion/school-lockdown-drills.html?unlocked_article_cod...

School Cellphone Ban Is Critical for ‘Addicted’ Students, NYC Chancellor Says https://www.edweek.org/technology/school-cellphone-ban-is-critical-for-addicted-students-nyc-chancellor-says/2024/06 NY Students Banned From Using Phones First Hated, Then Loved It https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-17/new-york-schools-that-banned-mobile-phones-see-student-grades-rise NYC planning a school c...

Chalkbeat New York - Cell phone ban for NYC schools could come ‘within 2 weeks,’ Chancellor David Banks says Education Week  - School Cellphone Ban Is Critical for ‘Addicted’ Students, NYC Chancellor Says Joelle Renstrom's website -------------- What internet addiction does to the brain: https://journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmen.0000022   UNESCO's report covering 14 co...

List of 216 schools whose initial budgets are cut compared to last year’s initial budgets https://onedrive.live.com/edit?id=BE64F542247E68E7!76061&resid=BE64F542247E68E7!76061&ithint=file,xlsx&authkey=!APxYIxA0MIKmTCg&wdo=2&cid=be64f542247e68e7&link_id=1&can_id=e162a5e988b2cf9c89a105c454340eee& DOE revises online guidance to require parent consent in response to our legal appeal https://classsizem...

Norm Scott's Ed Notes Online https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/p/about-education-notes.html The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman https://theinconvenienttruthbehindwaitingforsuperman.com/

Norm Scott's Ed Notes Online https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/p/about-education-notes.html The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman https://theinconvenienttruthbehindwaitingforsuperman.com/

New America, Case Against Exit Exams https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/policy-papers/the-case-against-exit-exams Times Union, New York making Regents exams voluntary https://www.timesunion.com/education/article/new-york-phasing-regents-exams-19503642.php NY Daily News, New York proposes dropping Regents exam as high school graduation requirement https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/06/10/new...

School Diversity Advisory Group, Making the Grade II: New Programs for Better Schools, August 2019, https://docs.steinhardt.nyu.edu/pdfs/metrocenter/atn293/sdag/Making-the-Grade-II.pdf Courthouse News, Sweeping Suit Over NYC Schools Bias Calls to Disband ‘Gifted & Talented’ Programs, March 9, 2021, https://www.courthousenews.com/sweeping-suit-over-nyc-schools-bias-calls-to-disband-gifted-talented-...

YouTube: Chancellor Banks Holds a Media Availability Ben Morgenroth candidacy website - Ben4TRS.org The Wire -Call to Action: Contact DOE Chancellor and his liaison about failures in rolling out TRS trustee election process Sign up now for our Parent Action Conference on May 11th!

School Yard Rap Apple Music - School Yard Rap Chalkbeat New York: Albany extends mayoral control for 2 years, tweaking NYC’s education panel Leonie Haimson: Post mortem on a disappointing state budget

NYSED Press Release - State Education Department Releases Report on Mayoral Control of New York City Schools The NYSED Report 

Politico, Prominent New York charter group launches 7-figure ad buy to support pro-Adams policy  https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/04/new-york-charter-group-pro-adams-policy-00150512 StudentsFirstNY Launches Seven-Figure Campaign to Extend Mayoral Accountability in New York City Schools https://www.studentsfirstny.org/studentsfirstny_launches_seven_figure_campaign_to_extend_mayoral_accountabil...

Hanan Harchol bio 'About A Teacher' film Hollywood Reporter: Review CBS News: Manhattan school district votes in favor of measure that could ban transgender athletes from girls sports Gothamist: Manhattan school committee approves plan to hinder transgender students' access to sports

Chalkbeat, NYC chancellor said he’d resign without mayoral control. His threat could add fuel to critics . Daily News, Keep Mayor Adams’ control of NYC schools, Chancellor David Banks urges Albany lawmakers   Sign up to testify at Council education budget hearings on March 18, 2024 Info on Panel for Education Policy meeting March 20, 2024  NYU Metro Center,   Lessons in (In)Equity: An Evaluation o...

Class Size Matters - The rally for smaller classes followed by three misleading claims from the DOE & SCA at the class size hearings Daily News - NYC Council demands progress report on class size reduction The City Council hearing  - http://tinyurl.com/classsizehearing The rally before the hearing video Leonie's written testimony Educational Council Consortium testimony Testimony of Michael Sill,...

Retiree Advocate The New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees The Wire:  UFT RTC election race launches with Retiree Advocate/UFT slate announced at UFT HQ Work Bites: ‘We Will Be in This Building!’ Medicare Advantage Foes Launch Bid to Win Control of UFT Chapter The Wire: Mulgrew and UFT Unity, Not MLC, Initiated Health Cuts

Sign up to testify at NYC Council class size hearings on Feb. 29 at 1 PM  News articles on NYS Legislature education budget hearings: NY1 and The City here  and here  Class Size Matters budget testimony Class Size Matters T estimony on Mayoral control  and presentation  to the NYC Bar Association Purchase Laura Pappano's book, School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Pub...

NYS - GOVERNOR HOCHUL ANNOUNCES HIGHLIGHTS OF FY 2025 EXECUTIVE BUDGET Gothamist - Profoundly disappointed': Hundreds of NY schools could get less state money in new budget NYSUT releases analysis on Governor Hochul’s executive budget: Broken promises and backtracking  Chalkbeat NY - Hochul proposes more than $800 million funding increase for NY schools, 4-year extension of mayoral control Allianc...

Leonie Haimson, Testimony on the myth of accountability under Mayoral control  Schedule and videos of Mayoral control hearings Politico, Lawmakers to consider Adams approach to class size as they weigh mayoral control   Submit written comments on Mayoral control by Jan. 31, 2024 here: https://www.nysed.gov/main/form/submit-written-electronic-testimony-nyc-mayoral-control Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates...

How to shrink class sizes in NYC? A working group shares its recommendations Recommendations from Class Size Working Group NYC’s class size working group delivers recommendations — but some members dissent NYC migrant families fear kids will be sleeping in the streets as shelter deadlines near Thousands of migrant kids are starting school in NYC. Is the system prepared?

Sources: Diane Ravitch -Website Network of Public Education NAEP scores show record drop in math for New York City’s fourth graders, but not in reading American Students Outperformed Much of the World During the Pandemic Federal Judge Orders NYC to Fix Special Education Service and Payment Delays Mayoral control comes under fire at Bronx public hearing GOP states are embracing vouchers. Wealthy pa...