Talk Out of School

NPE reports on the fraud and waste involved in the federal charter school program are   here  and  here .  A third NPE report details how many for-profit management companies evade state laws banning for-profit charters. Washington Post What the Biden administration’s new rules for charter schools say Letter to Gov. Hochul from over 35 elected officials and advocacy groups, urging her to sign the...

Daniel speaks to Leonie, parent leaders, Tom Sheppard and Jonathan Greenberg, and educators, Aixa Rodriguez, Martina Meijer, and Ryan Bruckenthal about the looming school budget cuts for the 2022-23 school year.

Adams and Council reach $101 billion budget deal, but school cuts remain Yaffed website NY Supreme Court sides with mother opposed to curriculum at son’s Brooklyn yeshiva Court rules city must conclude yeshiva investigation De Blasio Must Answer For 'Corrupt' Yeshiva Probe, Advocates Say

Class Size Matters - http://classsizematters.org Literacy Academy Collective - https://www.literacyacademycollective.org/              

Class Size Matters Annual Parent Action Conference on June 4, co-hosted by NYC Kids PAC; More information and to register here. The New Yorker, The Buffalo Shooter Shopped at Their Gun Stores NY Post, NY Dems pitch 3-year school control for Adams — with strings attached Panel for Educational Policy meetings page with members listed here; click on their names for their email addresses. Send an emai...

Daniel interviewed, Jonathan Halabi, the longest-serving HS chapter leader, who will share his expert analysis of the 2022 UFT election. Also interviews with the newly elected High School division teachers for UFT Executive Board - Nick Bacon, Ibeth Mejia, Lydia Howrilka, Ed Calamia, Ronnie Almonte, Alex Jallot, and Ilona Nanay. They share their vision for our union and city schools. You can also...

Student data breach in NYC also impacted charter schools, districts , NY Post, May 6, 2022  Why Mayoral control needs to be amended , Class Size Matters, March 2022  New and Emerging threats to Student and Teacher data privacy , Presentations at the NPE conference, April 30, 2022 Rep. Bowman's website     and his   The Green New Deal for Public Schools bill  Washington Post, Congress may create ma...

Bios:  Heather Clarke is a Black Afro-Caribbean mother of 2 small children. She is also neuro-divergent, with an invisible disability. She has over 20 years of experience working as a teacher, and in the field of educational justice and policy, working with children and families with disabilities both in the United States and in other countries. Heather is an Early Childhood and Special Education...

Daniel interviewed Dr. Doris Lee. She is the founding principal of Village Academy, a small middle school in the Far Rockaway community of NYC. Dr. Lee started her career as a middle school educator in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. Dr. Lee is a product of NYC public schools. Also, we shared an interview with Christina Gavin, a District 75 high school librarian in the Bronx. She is the s...

Class Size Matters report shows significant declines in citywide class sizes that will increase once again if Mayor’s budget cuts are made , March 20, 2022 Class Size Matters testimony at the Council education budget hearings , March 21, 2022  COVID Case Counts More Than Doubled in Public Schools Since Last Month, DOE Data Shows , The City, March 23, 2022 NYC education panel breaks with city to re...

Daniel spoke with two NYC educators. We talked about the needs & challenges school librarians are facing in NYC public schools with, Arlene Rabuse-Laverde, high school librarian; & also we discussed the new educator podcast, Professional Development, w/ its host, Noah Teachey, 6-12 music teacher. Noah also spoke to the challenges NYC music teachers are facing pre and during the pandemic.

Gothamist, Vaccination rates vary for students attending NYC's public schools, March 9, 2022  https://gothamist.com/news/vaccination-rates-vary-for-students-attending-nycs-public-schools Books by Yohuru Williams https://www.amazon.com/Books-Yohuru-Williams/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AYohuru+Williams ACLU, Defending Our Right to Learn, March 10, 2022,   https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/defending-...

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NYC Public School Parents, Why is NYC refusing to report vax rates in schools as required by law, & doing little to increase those numbers? https://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2022/02/why-is-nyc-refusing-to-report-vax-rates.html Chalkbeat, As NY mulls end to school mask mandate, how many students are vaccinated? https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/16/22938022/nyc-student-vaccination-rates-mask...

Daniel spoke to NYCDOE educator & parent, Camille Eterno, about the state of our city schools and her run for president of the United Federation of Teachers. They discussed smaller class sizes, mayoral control, health & safety during the pandemic and the response by the DOE and UFT, changes to retiree healthcare, our upcoming teacher contract, school segregation, specialized high school admissions...

Chalkbeat,  NYC officials keep a lid on data from tests to address ‘learning gaps’ Gothamist,  Some NYC Teachers Worry "Learning Loss" Tests Will Exacerbate the Problem Class Size Matters and Education Law Center,  State budget hearings testimony on the DOE’s failure to use state funds appropriately and with required public input NY Daily News,  NYC Education Dept. shortens quarantine for students...

Podcast: Grading the Drama, DOE Unplugged https://open.spotify.com/show/4Jng3qM0d409DjzRzXGzjv

Bloomberg News, Poor NYC Schools See Twice the Attendance Hit From Covid Surge Washington Post, New York City high school students stage walkout, citing inadequate covid measures  Daily News, Ransomware feared in weeklong outage of online grading and attendance system used by NYC schools Gothamist, NYC Education Department Quietly Opens Door For Teachers To Allow More Remote Learning NYC Public Sc...

Gotham Gazette, The Sizeable Downside of de Blasio’s education record NY1, At many schools, the DOE is testing fever kids for Covid than you might think NYC Public School Parents, Deceptive messaging and multiple gaps in the level of protection from Covid that the DOE is providing students -- but why? NYC Public School Parents , Update on Omicron and what's happening in schools in NYC and elsewher...

Daniel shares some of the highlights of the interviews of 2021. From Randi Weingartenn to Dr. David E Kirkland. From Critical Race Theory to Re-opening our schools during the pandemic.

NYC Council class size bill,  Int. 2374, Track Language, Sponsors, Hearings, and Votes TV reports on local school protests, rallies, and push for the Int 374 to be voted on: CBS NY News , ABC NYC Ne w s,  PIX News 11 . Gothamist, Teachers Union, Parents Push For Class Size Bill As Legislative Session Winds Down . Send an email to Speaker Corey Johnson to urge him to bring the bill to a vote Educat...

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Resources: Intro 2374 - The City Council class size reduction bill How parents can help get this passed - Sign the  UFT petition  and check out Class Size Matters campaign Gothamist's investigation  of defective Intellipure air purifiers and higher Covid rates in schools without mechanical ventilation systems. Chalkbeat NY - Settlement to give Black and Latino students more access to NYC high scho...

Visit Eterno's blog at:  http://iceuftblog.blogspot.com/

Maurice T. Cunningham,  Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization   and Mass Politics Profs blog  Local News:   Local News: NYC Public School Parents, Unanswered questions about DESSA, the DOE's social-emotional screener, and what parents should do Class Size Matters testimony on Intro 2374 and the need to lower class size Testimony on class size from Regent Kathy Cashin, Diane Ravitch a...