#Miami schools chief who spurned NYC to take Los Angeles job

#Miami schools chief who spurned NYC to take Los Angeles job

“#Miami schools chief who spurned NYC to take Los Angeles job” The Miami schools administrator who famously reneged on a deal to become city schools chancellor during a live televised meeting in 2018 is heading west. Alberto Carvalho, charismatic superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, has accepted an offer to lead the Los Angeles Unified…

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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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#Letters to the Editor — July 18, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — July 18, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — July 18, 2021” Toppling LeeIs taking down the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee going to make the lives of the people of Charl­ottesville, Va., better (“Robert E. ‘Lee’ving,” July 11)? The old expression of philosopher George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” sort…

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#Black parents’ righteous fury at NYC public school failure

#Black parents’ righteous fury at NYC public school failure

“#Black parents’ righteous fury at NYC public school failure” In what could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, middle-class black families in Queens are mobilizing against the city Department of Education’s routine acceptance of rotten public schools. As The Post’s Georgett Roberts and Selim Algar report, these parents in District 29 aren’t taking…

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#Comptroller candidate calls for probe into Carranza’s new gig

#Comptroller candidate calls for probe into Carranza’s new gig

“#Comptroller candidate calls for probe into Carranza’s new gig” Comptroller candidate Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is joining City Councilman Bob Holden in calling for a probe into former schools Chancellor Richard Carranza’s new private sector gig. Carranza quit his post in March and soon joined IXL learning, which was paid millions of dollars from the Department of…

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#Comptroller candidate calls for investigation into DOE spending

#Comptroller candidate calls for investigation into DOE spending

“#Comptroller candidate calls for investigation into DOE spending” City Controller Michelle Caruso-Cabrera has called for an independent investigation into spending by the Department of Education under ex-schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. Caruso-Cabrera’s call for a probe comes in the wake of a report by The Post that revealed the education department paid Carranza’s current employer —…

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#How the next mayor, chancellor can fix NYC’s broken schools

#How the next mayor, chancellor can fix NYC’s broken schools

“#How the next mayor, chancellor can fix NYC’s broken schools” New York City’s schools are in a state of urgent decline. Struggling to hold students accountable for basic attendance, let alone evaluate schoolwork and grades, leaders blame COVID-19. The reality? The school system was deteriorating long before the coronavirus became a household word. Against this…

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