#If they won’t fully reopen schools now, when will they?

#If they won’t fully reopen schools now, when will they?

“#If they won’t fully reopen schools now, when will they?” Last week, some fantastic news from the science world should’ve given full-time-schooling advocates real hope. Instead, officials are signaling that we may never return to full in-person learning, at least not like pre-COVID. A New York Times piece, “Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges,…

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#New bill would give loaded laptop to every NYC student

#New bill would give loaded laptop to every NYC student

“#New bill would give loaded laptop to every NYC student” The city will have to give a laptop loaded with “culturally responsive” textbooks to every student under a bill to be introduced next week by Council Members Ben Kallos and Farah Louis. The measure was prompted by a Department of Education official’s stunning testimony at…

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#NYC student tests positive for COVID-19 after birthday party

#NYC student tests positive for COVID-19 after birthday party

“#NYC student tests positive for COVID-19 after birthday party” An 8th grader held a birthday party with four classmates from her Bronx school before testing positive for COVID-19 — raising fears of a “super-spreader” event, The Post has learned. The party, which took place inside a small apartment, featured a “cake fight” with girls smearing…

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#Richard Carranza’s grading policy will bar failing marks: NYC DOE

#Richard Carranza’s grading policy will bar failing marks: NYC DOE

“#Richard Carranza’s grading policy will bar failing marks: NYC DOE” Chancellor Richard Carranza’s highly anticipated new grading policy for this school year will again ban failing marks, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post, riling educators and parents. The city Department of Education document, titled “Grading Policy 2020-2021,” says schools should use the…

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#Tensions boil over at NYC school admissions rally

#Tensions boil over at NYC school admissions rally

“#Tensions boil over at NYC school admissions rally” A angry scuffle broke out at a rally backing competitive school admissions Friday after an opposing group interrupted the event. Roughly 80 supporters of screened schools — many of them South and East Asian — gathered near City Hall to demand that the DOE maintain accelerated academic…

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#Carranza hints at Gifted & Talented program changes due to COVID

#Carranza hints at Gifted & Talented program changes due to COVID

“#Carranza hints at Gifted & Talented program changes due to COVID” Remote learning could help to remake the city’s coveted Gifted and Talented programs, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Thursday night. Speaking to members of a Queens parental advisory board, Carranza said the Department of Education is weighing how entry into accelerated programs will be…

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#When it can’t take attendance, NYC’s public-school system has stopped working

#When it can’t take attendance, NYC’s public-school system has stopped working

“#When it can’t take attendance, NYC’s public-school system has stopped working” One silver lining of sorts from this whole dreadful pandemic: It has exposed the fundamental dysfunction of the city’s public-schools system and the utter incompetence of Chancellor Richard Carranza. Any learning now happening is despite Carranza, his bureaucracy and the United Federation of Teachers….

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