Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Read original... Community Education Council (CEC) presidents are no longer meeting with schools Chancellor Joel Klein each month — and some Brooklynites could care less. “They were a waste of time,” said James Dandridge, president of District 18’s CEC, which advocates for public schools in Canarsie and East Flatbush. “You never had any results coming...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
From the Gotham Gazette : Following his narrow victory last night, Michael Bloomberg may make changes — Ben Smith reports in Politico that he has “already promised a major shakeup of his senior aides.” So who’s headed out the door? David Bloomfield, an education professor at Brooklyn College, bets on Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. “Eight years seems...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... who was joined by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan, also announced he has directed Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to immediately begin using student performance data to "inform" teacher tenure decisions - something the mayor has long tried to push through Albany with little success due to the enormous clout of the teachers unions. (Recall that Bloomberg is in the...
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... setting rising standards and requirements, our schools are generally moving forward," Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said ." All pretty obfuscating to us-obscuring the real conditions and the actual learning being done in exchange for a letter grade that reveals little. Except for the fact that these grades can mean big money for teacher bonuses-at least someone is...
Business Opportunities Weblog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
TIME’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. This past summer, in a sixth-grade math class, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein piloted a small program in which individualized, technology-based learning takes the place of the old “let’s all proceed together” [...]...
Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... drop out, the professors charged. The council submitted its report in September 2008 to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein with a plea to work with city schools. Source: NY Daily News I am pretty sure that these same startling statistics are applicable to other school districts across this country. Most students seek to avoid math like the plague. We have to find ways to teach students...
Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... are protesting the suspension of Voorish. They have started a letter-writing campaign to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and created a "Save Mr. V" page on Facebook. Fifteen -year-old junior Omar Caminero said: "We're not little kids. We are in high school. It's not like we've never read anything like that-we have." Another student Frankchesca Jimenez, 16, said: "He didn't mean...
The Chalkboard (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... particularly in New York City with its expensive real estate market. Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein have stepped in to provide some charter schools access to district capital funds and most NYC charters are housed in district space to alleviate this challenge. But those arrangements are not permanent and could unravel. About one-third of the City's charter...
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
... 2008 by another Bear Stearns refugee, former Managing Director George Raab 3rd, who was hired by Chancellor Joel Klein after the firm crashed. Howatt was paid about $68,000 from November 2008 through January 2009. Beginning in January, Howatt no longer collected checks directly. The DOE wired him an additional $306,000 through a fast-track contract. The DOE got around a more...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
... like that — we have ." Students have started a letter-writing campaign to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and have created a "Save Mr. V" group on Facebook . Junior Frankchesca Jimenez, 16, defended her teacher's decision to assign the "Guts," which was first published in Playboy. "He didn't mean it to be anything other than something we could...
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The Mayor allows Chancellor Joel Klein and the Department of Education to ignore the recycling laws, as well...I suppose, the laws of New York City are only for ordinary people and don't apply to King Bloomberg and his administration.... Read original... ECO NO-NO: Cleanup workers at city parks are told by supervisors to cut corners and send recyclables, like plastic water bottles,...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... family filed a federal lawsuit along with the NYCLU , naming NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, School Chancellor Joel Klein and the supervisory officer at the 107th Precinct as codefendants for their roles in allegedly covering up the incident and for their failure to properly train, screen, discipline or supervise school safety agents. Yesterday a federal judge approved a settlement...
Ednotes Online - The Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... asked about the state law barring test scores for being used for granting tenure and how outraged Joel Klein was I pointed out that the law was irrelevant and everyone (but the press) understands that since non-tenured teachers can be fired if the principal doesn't like the way they cut their hair. This didn't make the cut. By the way, when Obama talks about the firewall separating...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A management consultant and hypnotherapist got paid $374,000 from the Education Department to help save money by improving managers' morale and boosting productivity. William Howatt Ph.D. had previously served as a consultant for Bear Stearns, and then the firm went under . Luckily for him, a former Bear Stearns manager got hired by Chancellor Joel Klein after the firm crashed,...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... candidate) Tim Pawlenty and included such education policy heavyweights as New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee. The report's 20 recommendations for improving teacher effectiveness include providing more funding for alternative teacher training and certification routes (like Teach for America), requiring school districts to create...
