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NYC District 3 Magnet School Program Parent Workshop
SCHOOL CHOICE: CHOOSING THE RIGHT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR YOUR CHILD
The NYC District 3 Magnet School Program is having the first of a series of parent workshops this evening to help demystify the public school choice process.
These workshop aim to help local families understand all of the public school options available to them and teach them how to go about finding the right schools for their children.
In addition, they will help parents understand what Magnet Schools are, how the enrollment process works, and how they can apply.
DATES AND LOCATIONS
February 6, 2012 and March 5, 2012
115th Street Library, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
203 West 115th Street, NY, NY 10026
February 13, 2012 and April 3, 2012
District 3 Headquarters, Joan of Arc Auditorium, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
154 West 93rd Street, NY, NY 10025
(Between Amsterdam and Columbus)
NYC District 3 Magnet Schools applications are currently available at www.D3mag.net
Manhattan District 3 Russian Dual Language Program Proposed
A group of District 3 parents are working toward launching a RussianDual Language Program in a District 3 public elementary school. If you are interested and your child will enter Kindergarten in 2012, 2013, 2014, or 2015, please email contact the District 3 office for more information. Knowledge of Russian is not required.
National Catholic Schools Week – January 29-February 5 2012
The theme for Catholic Schools Week 2012 is “Catholic Schools: Faith. Academics. Service.” The annual observance starts the last Sunday in January and runs all week, which in 2012 is January 29 to February 5. Schools typically celebrate Catholic Schools Week with Masses, open houses and special activities for students, families, parishioners and the community at large. This week also kicks off the enrollment period for September 2012. Information about Catholic schools from Pre-K through Grade 12 in the Archdiocese of New York can be found on the bilingual website: www.BuildBoldFutures.org, or by calling the bilingual recruitment phone 212-794-2885.
The theme for 2012 focuses on three priorities that make Catholic schools stand out from other educational institutions. Children are taught faith – not just the basics of Christianity, but how to have a relationship with God. Academics, which in Catholic schools are held to very high standards, and help each child reach his or her potential. Service, the giving of one’s time and effort to help others, is taught both as an expression of faith and good citizenship.
Recap of 2011 Education Events
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 update our calendar events and education news.
Here is great recap of the best and worst education events of 2011 from Leonie Haimson at NYC Public School Parent.
Anything to add? Let us know in comments below.
Hunter Announces SB5 Cut Score Today
The following message was posted on Hunter's website today:
This year's modified Stanford-Binet V testing for Kindergarten 2012 admissions has concluded. The eligibility score for progression to Round 2 (on-site assessment) has been set at a Sum of Scaled Scores (SSS) of 148.
Letters will be mailed on December 19th informing eligible families of their appointments for Round 2.
Congratulations to everyone going on to the 2nd round!
Chair of Popular Harlem Charter School Steps Down
The Chair of The New York French American Charter School in Harlem resigned last night. The relatively new District 3 school was recently put on probation for violations of it charter and New York Stale law. A new Chair, Fabrice Rouah, was elected to the board. Full story at Gotham School here.
Update on School Bus Strike
After the Mayor's press conference last Friday and Chancellor Walcott's letter home warning of "an immediate system-wide, and in our view, illegal, strike by our bus drivers' union—local 1181—that could impact yellow bus service for more than 152,000 students citywide", parents are left wondering what will happen with school bus transportation.
Leonie Haimson over at NYC Public School Parents blog has an excellent article giving us some background as to how this situation came to be.
Key points:
- at issue is inclusion of employment protection provisions (EPP) in contracts for school bus drivers
- the Doe always maintained that contracts had to have the EPP provision which required the winning bidder to keep the drivers from the incumbent according to seniority. The rationale was that without EPP the union would strike
- In July, however, the city made an about-face, asking Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to veto a bill it had helped develop that would have extended the protections to bus contracts for preschool students who receive special education services
- Mr. Cuomo did just that in September, citing a decision by the State Court of Appeals that including such protections drives up cost and drives away competition
- The protections are part of the contracts, which expire in December 2012, that govern the transportation of about 138,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. The new request for proposals that went out on Friday, after the Mayor's press conference, do not include the provision.
According to the New York Times, “Most of the students who would be affected by the strike live in Brooklyn and Queens, some of them outside the city’s public transportation grid. About 102,000 of them are in elementary school; of those, approximately 30,000 have special needs, and some of them require specific travel accommodations, limited travel time and door-to-door service.”
Parents to Improve School Transportation support an EPP in school bus contracts. In their statement, "An Employee Protection Provision is something parents support because we want trained, experienced and decently paid workers handling the youngest children with disabilities. This EPP has been in the K-12 contracts since 1979; it didn't cover pre-K only because pre-K wasn't universal at the time. This summer, both houses in Albany passed a bill to extend EPP to pre-Kindergarten and Early Intervention busing, but Cuomo vetoed it at Bloomberg's request."
Here is a statement from the school bus union ATU Local 1181 President Michael Cordiello.
See complete article here.
