Will New Teacher Evaluations Be Put Off For Another Year?
Less than a month after it was enacted, Governor Cuomo’s new teacher evaluation plan seems to be in jeopardy, with the Regents Chancellor calling for a year’s delay and a key Senator saying the...
View ArticleKaren Magee: Why Do The Rich Need More Tax Credits?
Two recent events — one political, one cultural — offer a glimpse into two worlds.
View ArticleCampbell Brown Speech At Business Dinner Attracting Union Protesters
The teachers union and its allies will protest outside New York’s annual Business Council meeting in Lake George on Wednesday. The union is upset over a speech to be given by former CNN anchor and now...
View ArticleNY: Mixed Reaction Over John King Appointment
When John King, New York's top-ranking education official, left his post for a federal position, many New Yorkers breathed a sigh of a relief. That relief is short-lived, now that King is succeeding...
View ArticleNYSUT Is Suing The State Over Changes To Teacher Evaluations
New York's largest teachers union is suing the state over changes to the teacher evaluation law.
View ArticleKaren Magee: Thoughts On Back To School
In just a few weeks, parents will send their children back to school. Already, we see vans and S-U-Vs on the Thruway, packed to the gills with the belongings that college students need to fill their...
View Article#1355: "Remembering D.A. Henderson"
We talk a lot about heroes in today’s culture. In fact, the word has lost a little bit of its luster. But the world lost a hero a few weeks ago…someone whose name you may not know. Let’s just say if...
View ArticleAndrew Pallotta: The Con Job
I’ve been thinking a lot about a really scary poll number: 89 percent of New Yorkers say they have heard little or nothing about a ballot question coming at us this November.
View ArticleTuesday’s NY State School Budget Voting: Almost Everyone Wins
After voting Tuesday, it appears 2017 was a great year for the passage of school budgets, according to preliminary reports by New York State United Teachers and the New York State School Boards...
View ArticleAndrew Pallotta: Questions About New York Charter Schools
Most New Yorkers just aren’t that familiar with charter schools.
View ArticleNYS Ed Leaders Say They Aren't Lowering Standards
The state Board of Regents is taking steps to make it easier for teachers to become certified in New York. But the state education commissioner denies that it’s a lessening of requirements.
View ArticleNY Teacher Union President Against Arming Teachers
The head of New York state’s largest teachers union says arming teachers won’t make schools safer, but he says schools should have more protection.
View ArticleMost NY School Budgets Pass
Voters in New York approved nearly 98 percent of school district budgets this week.
View ArticleTensions Ease, But NYS Senate Stalemate Continues
The business of the evenly divided New York State Senate remains stalled, as advocacy groups press for their bills to be acted on before the session ends in two weeks.
View ArticleNY Teachers Union Serenades Senate To Push For Bill
New York’s largest teachers union brought bagpipe players and a brass band to the Capitol Wednesday to push for a bill to decouple teacher evaluations from the results of standardized tests.
View ArticleNew York's Union Leaders React To Janus Decision
New York’s union leaders are condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision which upheld the right of a worker not to pay union dues. However, a newly passed state law might mitigate the effects of in...
View ArticleNew York Unions Regroup After Janus
A newly formed group is reaching out to public sector union members in New York, informing them of their rights, under the recently decided US Supreme Court Janus case, to opt out of their unions....
View ArticlePublic School Spending An Area Of Contention As Cuomo Readies Budget
Governor Andrew Cuomo is ready to release his state budget plan on Tuesday, and public school spending will likely once again be an area of contention, as the state faces a $6 billion budget gap.
View ArticleEducators React To Cuomo's "Reimagine Education" Plan
A week ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York is collaborating with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a plan to develop a "smarter education system."
View ArticleBudget Cuts Loom Over NYS Schools
As schools in New York state grapple with reopening plans during the COVID-19 pandemic, they are also facing a temporary 20% cut in state funding that could become permanent.
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