Fraud: Paltry and Non-Actionab...
For undisclosed reasons, the Department of Education recently removed the probationary principal of a high school from his...
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First Amendment as Government&...
“When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment...
read moreBe A Responsible Worker: Don&#...
Teachers suffering, for example, from cancer whose survival depends on treatment extending beyond the ten days ‘sick...
read moreFirst Amendment: Weaponized or...
“When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment...
read moreRegents Exams: Pull the Plug?
Why do people who know better often consent to being fooled? Who is kidding whom? By and large, graduating high school...
read moreSchool Custodians
School custodians historically have either gotten a bad rap or are underestimated and taken for granted. Sometimes even the...
read moreHeatstroke and Learning Joys
“Thank you, Nature, for sparing us embarrassment by not putting us to the test!” That could be the Department of...
read moreSTEM OR STEAM?
School systems across our country are scrambling to play “catch up” with the stress on science, technology, engineering...
read moreThe Bronx Global Learning Inst...
“Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream” These lines from a 19th century operetta were...
read moreFood For Belly and Food For Th...
First the body: The summer meals program that began last week in over a thousand public schools and other sites citywide offers free...
read moreStatistics and the Yawning Gap
The New York Post, which injects fresh outrage into stale education stories, has revived an old body of evidence from its morgue....
read morePossible Cancer Cluster in Upp...
Three public schools sharing a common campus in Upper Manhattan are being checked out for a possibly statistically significant cancer...
read moreThe Tenure Headgame
The probationary period for public school teachers is the most protracted and arguably the most stringent of any group of civil...
read moreRebuttal To NY Post Editorial
The Post denies that a New York City public school teacher attrition rate of over 40% over the first five years is a crisis or even a...
read moreSchool Principals On The (Meta...
It was reported to me earlier today by a New York City public school teacher, on the last day of the school year, that she got into a...
read moreSuspension Rule Modifications
To “curb” student suspensions of longer than 20 days is not the same as banning them altogether. A prominent...
read moreNew NYC Education Budget
Whether or not it’s commonly known or appreciated by most New Yorkers, their public school teachers each year typically spend...
read moreBeware Summer Vacation Opioid ...
School is almost over. Summer’s here. When bracing autumn comes, some kids will be off the rolls because they overdosed over the...
read moreNumbers Don’t Lie Except...
Is it any wonder that no posthumous relapses of fatal illness have been reported among patients since their interment in the...
read moreFawning Letter to the New York...
Congratulations on doubling your newsstand price overnight. That’s bold, some would say nervy. To preserve a...
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