#Bill de Blasio ups the ante in his war on low-income, minority students

Admin6 years ago04 mins

“#Bill de Blasio ups the ante in his war on low-income, minority students” Mayor de Blasio’s war on charter schools — read: on children, and mostly children of color — rages on. Now it’s not just sports fields, but the SATs. We wrote last week about the city Department of Education’s bid to bill the…

#Carranza’s deputy calls school admission decisions ‘political’

Admin6 years ago07 mins

“#Carranza’s deputy calls school admission decisions ‘political’” A top deputy of schools Chancellor Richard Carranza stunned parents last week when she said decisions on admission criteria for the city’s top middle and high schools are “political.” “Anything that’s as high stakes and important as — and political, to be honest — as admissions policy is…