Anthony Weiner
Whither the City’s PACs, de Blasio’s Renewal Schools & Yellow Cabs? Campaign Headlines for Sept. 26
Jarrett Murphy |
Plus, Anthony Weiner is sentenced to prison time.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Mayor Must Check His Math Before Test-Score Celebration
Fred Smith |
‘De Blasio wants to embrace Bloomberg’s bottomed-out, third-term school years as his starting point, because things could only improve after that.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Cuts To School-Based Health Clinics Will Hurt The Most Vulnerable
Liz Cohen |
‘New York City’s school-based health clinics are under siege, as funding from New York State was cut significantly in this budget year.’
Education
Video: Now that Mayoral Control is Settled, What Challenges Face NYC Schools?
Jarrett Murphy |
School leadership, budget and parental engagement are among the areas where the system needs work or help, three experts say.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: What’s Wrong With the Mayor’s School Diversity Plan
David Bloomfield |
Whenever the mayor decides to take the promised second step in this journey, let it be a giant step, worthy of the greatest city in the world.
Charter Schools
CityViews: Message from a ‘Failing’ School on the Brink of Closure
Dalisbeth Galvez |
In moving to close CJHS 145 in the Bronx, the authors argue, the city is ignoring the policy choices that have hindered the school’s performance—and the successes its staff and students have achieved despite those obstacles. A video op-ed.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Mayor Has Stepped on Toes to Fight Homelessness. He Should do the Same to Desegregate NYC Schools
Boris Santos |
The scope of the homeless crisis justifies the city locating shelters even in neighborhoods that don’t want them. The scale of the school crisis, the author argues, ought to warrant the same kind of no-holds-barred response.
Brooklyn
CityViews: Community Schools Clear the Path for Student Success
Margaret Crotty and Alex Teitel |
Two leaders in the de Blasio administration program to boost struggling schools write that the model is taking hold and paying dividends.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: DOE is Letting Charters Undermine its Plan for Struggling Schools
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Is the de Blasio administration undercutting its own education vision by allowing charter co-locations in its Community Schools?
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews:
Promising de Blasio School Plan Could be Tanked by Test Scores
Marilena Marchetti |
The Community Schools Initiative could make real progress at addressing the complex social pressures that low-income students face. But if test scores determine the fate of those schools, a UFT activist argues, they are unlikely to succeed.
