#School banned my ‘Proud Zionist’ t-shirt

#School banned my ‘Proud Zionist’ t-shirt

“#School banned my ‘Proud Zionist’ t-shirt” An outraged Park Slope teacher says he learned the hard way that it’s OK to wear Black Lives Matter t-shirts to work at his “woke” Brooklyn school — but not pro-cop or pro-Israel garb. Jeffrey Levy, an English as a Second Language teacher at MS 51 in the liberal…

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#Special-needs settlement shows how little de Blasio cared about ‘equity’

#Special-needs settlement shows how little de Blasio cared about ‘equity’

“#Special-needs settlement shows how little de Blasio cared about ‘equity’” For proof that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s talk of “equity” in education was always hollow, consider the city’s humiliating settlement this month resolving a 2017 lawsuit over the Department of Education’s failure to provide federally mandated services to special-needs Bronx kids. The class-action lawsuit exposed…

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#NYC Department of Education Dysfunction

#NYC Department of Education Dysfunction

“#NYC Department of Education Dysfunction” We start with the good news. In an agency notorious for a lack of consequences, it’s heartening that the Department of Education has moved to terminate Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir, a principal who fixed grades at his former school, Maspeth HS in Queens. Now, the bad news: What took so long? Why…

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#Letters to the Editor — May 25, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — May 25, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — May 25, 2021” The Issue: A Brooklyn principal who sent an e-mail asking teachers and parents to support Palestinians. Where does MS 136 Principal Amanda Bueno come off urging parents and staff to support the Palestinians in the recent conflict (“Middle school intifada,” May 22)? As a retired teacher of…

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#Letters to the Editor — May 5, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — May 5, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — May 5, 2021” The Issue: Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross-Porter’s call to eliminate admissions tests at elite schools. Seth Barron was exactly right — the test to enter elite high schools is not the culprit (“Wrong Culprit,” PostOpinion, May 1). The culprit is parents who do not make sure their children…

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