Remainders: Teachers at a Bronx charter school vote to unionize
- The Texas Board of Ed approved a new set of social studies standards promoted by conservatives.
- Teachers at Bronx Academy of Promise Charter School announced that they want to unionize.
- The Times has a call out for school bake-in inspired recipes.
- Jay Mathews takes the “Remember the Titans” school to illustrate how numbers can mask good schools.
- Miss Mimi tried to find a bright side to national standards, but explains why she doesn’t think it’s there.
- A D.C. biology teacher might just be the nation’s only female varsity high school football coach.
- A general ed teacher explains why she usually avoids attending her special ed students’ IEP meetings.
- A Bronx teacher harnesses increased public interest in ed reform to finance his students’ New Orleans trip.
- A teacher explains he shared the results of his data report because it is both meaningless and meaningful.
- The student whose school canceled prom rather than allow her to bring her girlfriend made the TV rounds.
- Chancellor Joel Klein called the city’s graduation rates “a tribute to the mayor’s leadership” on MSNBC.
- And Diane Ravitch said she think the feds should mandate that all students study music.
Commission finds city discriminated in forcing principal to resign
The former principal of a dual-language Arabic-English school was forced to resign by city officials who discriminated against her, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found today.
A report by the commission found that in 2007, when Khalil Gibran International Academy interim principal Debbie Almontaser was forced to resign, Department of Education officials acted out of ethnic and religious bias. Almontaser, an Arab Muslim, was asked to leave the school after some found comments she made in the press offensive and began a campaign to paint her as an extremist. Since then, the school has struggled to get back on its feet and Almontaser is arguing that she should be allowed to have her old job back.
The commission’s report states that “the DOE succumbed to the very bias that the creation of the school was
A report by the commission found that in 2007, when Khalil Gibran International Academy interim principal Debbie Almontaser was forced to resign, Department of Education officials acted out of ethnic and religious bias. Almontaser, an Arab Muslim, was asked to leave the school after some found comments she made in the press offensive and began a campaign to paint her as an extremist. Since then, the school has struggled to get back on its feet and Almontaser is arguing that she should be allowed to have her old job back.
The commission’s report states that “the DOE succumbed to the very bias that the creation of the school was