Happy New Year! We are looking forward to a year full of growth and lots of relevant educations information for our fellow parents in 2012. We’ve been busy working on updating the site with new features to help you with your school search that will be rolled out soon. In the meantime, we’ll continue to [...]
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New York City Schools institute sensible bed bug policy
Bed bug infestations are a huge problem in New York City. Major hotels, retail shops and corporations have been affected in the past few years. I think it’s only a matter of when, and not if, your individual school will be infested. That’s why the city’s previous bed bug policy didn’t go very far [...]
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Education News For Week Ending July 31, 2010
Education news this week has been breaking at a dizzying pace. This interview with on Democracy Now with Diane Ravitch, a professor of education at NYU, New York University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Leonie Haimson, a public school parent and executive director of Class Size Matters, is well worth a read. Here [...]
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“Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn”
At long last, a document on education that makes sense! On Monday, a coalition of civil rights groups realeased a 17 page framework for education reform that excoriates, in a nice way, President Obama’s education policies and offers direction for how to make things right.
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Charter school fight for space in New York City
In my school district, the choice of public schools leave something to be desired. That’s why I was very excited to learn of plans for the first public French-American charter schoolElementary or secondary schools that receive public money but have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public [...]
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NY Governor’s doomsday budget includes cutting early childhood and pre-k programs
The New York State education budget is on the chopping blocks yet again. The Governor’s worst-case scenario includes cutting ALL early childhood and pre-k programs. Read the Daily News article here. This is serious folks.
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