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“#NYC parents blast belated TikTok school shooting threat warning” City parents said the Department of Education should have warned them earlier about a TikTok school shooting threat — and that the late notice left no time to consider keeping their kids home Friday. New York City Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter sent out a note to…
“#NYC schools chief Meisha Porter stepping down as chancellor” City schools Chancellor Meisha Porter announced Wednesday that she will step down from her role at the end of Mayor de Blasio’s term. In an appearance on NY1, Porter said she will be taking the helm at a new Bronx nonprofit organization once mayor-elect Eric Adams…
“#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…
“#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…
“#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…
“#NYC’s outrageous failure to offer decent public-school options” It’s the ultimate admission of failure when teachers at your kids’ public school tell you that if you want better for your child, you need to go somewhere else. And it’s the ultimate disgrace when the mayor is using his power over the schools to . ….
“#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…
“#Pol proposes law to preserve Columbus Day as NYC school holiday” A state lawmaker — outraged by the de Blasio administration’s canceling of Columbus Day as a school holiday — is introducing a bill to restore the explorer to the New York City school calendar by rescinding the re-labeling to “Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous Peoples Day.”…
“#Rep. Suozzi says schools chief must explain Columbus Day ‘removal’” US Rep. Tom Suozzi is demanding answers in the wake of the Department of Education’s abrupt move to scrap Columbus Day as a school holiday. In a letter issued to city Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter late Tuesday, Suozzi (D-Nassau) expressed his opposition to the…
“#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…