Remainders: UFT retention rights and retired teacher power
- With pay and job security increasingly tied to test scores, incidents of cheating are multiplying.
- Retention rights in the teachers union contract give retired teachers first dibs on summer school jobs.
- Helen Zelon looks at the charter & district space wars and questions the new law doesn’t answer.
- Reshma Saujani, who is running against Carolyn Maloney, proposes “Teachers to the Top.”
- Chancellor Klein met with a tough crowd in Queens, where schools are overcrowded.
- Peter Murphy: if the state raises the cost of school construction, the money will come out of classrooms.
- The Alvin Ailey Theater is featuring films produced by NYC students tonight.
- Dan Brown says his school, SEED, is doing great things, but that doesn’t mean all charters are.
- Bill Turque looks at why the D.C. schools and the union took so long to reach a contract deal.
- Community colleges are rethinking how they teach remedial math, a huge obstacle to graduation.
- Chancellor’s Conference Day is all about professional development and wasting time, writes a teacher.
- NYC public school grads now have a website that the city wants to use to stay in touch with them.
- NYC produces the most high school dropouts nationally, but LA has a higher drop out rate.
- And Democrats are thinking of redirecting unspent stimulus money to avoiding teacher layoffs.
City could send twice as many 3-8 graders to summer school
The number of elementary and middle school students running out the school doors this month only to come back for summer school in July is set to more than double this year.
The city has identified 21,000 students in grades three through eight who, based on their low state test scores, will be required to attend summer school this year. That’s a major increase over the 10,000 students sent to summer school last year because of their test scores.
The explanation for that jump lies with a change in how the city and state are calculating which students passed the annual math and English exams. As a result of a delayed state testing schedule, the city is setting what it
The city has identified 21,000 students in grades three through eight who, based on their low state test scores, will be required to attend summer school this year. That’s a major increase over the 10,000 students sent to summer school last year because of their test scores.
The explanation for that jump lies with a change in how the city and state are calculating which students passed the annual math and English exams. As a result of a delayed state testing schedule, the city is setting what it
