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“#Letters to the Editor — May 12, 2021” The Issue: Karol Markowicz’s column on the drive toward “equity,” not excellence, in public schools. Karol Markowicz’s column on eliminating Gifted & Talented courses highlighted the absurd thinking among school administrators (“Class Warfare,” PostOpinion, May 11). Administrators are looking to create equity in math instruction. NASA recently…
“#Teachers’-union boss fumbles on 1619 Project, school openings should scare America” Have you ever seen the head of the nation’s most powerful teachers’ union caught like a deer in the headlights? If not, you must have missed American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten’s disastrous interview on Fox News. The union boss managed to badly…
“#Charter school backer starts PAC to help Eric Adams’ bid for mayor” A major charter school backer is launching a Super PAC to help elect Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams the next mayor of New York City. Jenny Sedlis, the head of the pro-charter advocacy group Students First NY, said she plans to raise $6…
“#NYC Dept. of Ed scraps snow days for school kids after pandemic” Here’s another thing ruined by COVID-19: Snow days. New York City’s Department of Education on Tuesday said that — after a year of virtual learning because of the coronavirus pandemic — students should plan on attending classes remotely during what used to be…
“#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…
“#Expelling Asian Americans from top schools proves NYC education is off the rails” Anti-Asian violence in New York right now is more than random street-corner sucker punches and terrifying subway shoves. It’s also the deliberate disassembly of meritocratic public education under the guise of ethnic equity — a dagger to the heart of the fastest-growing…
“#NYC DOE baffles parents, bungles middle school admission offers” The Department of Education launched city parents into yet another tailspin Thursday after mistakenly posting some middle school admission offers online, before abruptly removing them. Recipients said they were surprised to see the information appear in their parent portals — and were doubly taken aback when…
“#Mayoral candidates a very mixed bag on fixing NYC’s public schools” Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley leads the pack when it comes to hypocrisy on education. As co-chair of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s advisory panel on school diversity, Wiley pushed for ending the city’s Gifted and Talented programs, the specialized high schools entrance exam and all…
“#English exam fail is no laughing matter” Many of the questions on the recent New York state English exam for grades 3-8 duplicated ones from old tests on a practice Web site, rendering the exams worthless. It’s a giveaway that the State Education Department’s mission is now to spread ignorance about how little children are…
“#What it takes for NYC DOE to stop endangering special-needs kids” Cheers to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for following up with a new audit in the wake of Susan Edelman’s July 2019 Post exposé on hazardous and unsafe conditions at PS 9, a school for special-needs kids. His audit team visited 29 schools in 2019-2020,…