Chalkbeat New York - Cell phone ban for NYC schools could come ‘within 2 weeks,’ Chancellor David Banks says Education Week - School Cellphone Ban Is Critical for ‘Addicted’ Students, NYC Chancellor Says Joelle Renstrom's website -------------- What internet addiction does to the brain: https://journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmen.0000022 UNESCO's report covering 14 countries & recommending a cell phone ban in schools: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385...
Jul 14, 2024•55 min•Ep. 170
List of 216 schools whose initial budgets are cut compared to last year’s initial budgets https://onedrive.live.com/edit?id=BE64F542247E68E7!76061&resid=BE64F542247E68E7!76061&ithint=file,xlsx&authkey=!APxYIxA0MIKmTCg&wdo=2&cid=be64f542247e68e7&link_id=1&can_id=e162a5e988b2cf9c89a105c454340eee& DOE revises online guidance to require parent consent in response to our legal appeal https://classsizematters.org/in-response-to-our-legal-appeal-doe-will-now-require-pare...
Jul 08, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 169
Norm Scott's Ed Notes Online https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/p/about-education-notes.html The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman https://theinconvenienttruthbehindwaitingforsuperman.com/
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 167
Norm Scott's Ed Notes Online https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/p/about-education-notes.html The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman https://theinconvenienttruthbehindwaitingforsuperman.com/
Jun 17, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 166
New America, Case Against Exit Exams https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/policy-papers/the-case-against-exit-exams Times Union, New York making Regents exams voluntary https://www.timesunion.com/education/article/new-york-phasing-regents-exams-19503642.php NY Daily News, New York proposes dropping Regents exam as high school graduation requirement https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/06/10/new-york-proposes-dropping-regents-exam-as-high-school-graduation-requirement City and State Eric Adams...
Jun 17, 2024•52 min•Ep. 165
School Diversity Advisory Group, Making the Grade II: New Programs for Better Schools, August 2019, https://docs.steinhardt.nyu.edu/pdfs/metrocenter/atn293/sdag/Making-the-Grade-II.pdf Courthouse News, Sweeping Suit Over NYC Schools Bias Calls to Disband ‘Gifted & Talented’ Programs, March 9, 2021, https://www.courthousenews.com/sweeping-suit-over-nyc-schools-bias-calls-to-disband-gifted-talented-programs/ NY Times, Court Allows Case Challenging Segregation in N.Y.C. Schools to Advance, May ...
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 164
YouTube: Chancellor Banks Holds a Media Availability Ben Morgenroth candidacy website - Ben4TRS.org The Wire -Call to Action: Contact DOE Chancellor and his liaison about failures in rolling out TRS trustee election process Sign up now for our Parent Action Conference on May 11th!...
May 05, 2024•58 min•Ep. 163
School Yard Rap Apple Music - School Yard Rap Chalkbeat New York: Albany extends mayoral control for 2 years, tweaking NYC’s education panel Leonie Haimson: Post mortem on a disappointing state budget...
Apr 21, 2024•50 min•Ep. 162
NYSED Press Release - State Education Department Releases Report on Mayoral Control of New York City Schools The NYSED Report
Apr 14, 2024•58 min•Ep. 161
Politico, Prominent New York charter group launches 7-figure ad buy to support pro-Adams policy https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/04/new-york-charter-group-pro-adams-policy-00150512 StudentsFirstNY Launches Seven-Figure Campaign to Extend Mayoral Accountability in New York City Schools https://www.studentsfirstny.org/studentsfirstny_launches_seven_figure_campaign_to_extend_mayoral_accountability_in_new_york_city_schools Network for Public Education “ Public School in America: Measuring Each ...
Apr 08, 2024•59 min•Ep. 160
Hanan Harchol bio 'About A Teacher' film Hollywood Reporter: Review CBS News: Manhattan school district votes in favor of measure that could ban transgender athletes from girls sports Gothamist: Manhattan school committee approves plan to hinder transgender students' access to sports...
Mar 24, 2024•55 min•Ep. 159
Chalkbeat, NYC chancellor said he’d resign without mayoral control. His threat could add fuel to critics . Daily News, Keep Mayor Adams’ control of NYC schools, Chancellor David Banks urges Albany lawmakers Sign up to testify at Council education budget hearings on March 18, 2024 Info on Panel for Education Policy meeting March 20, 2024 NYU Metro Center, Lessons in (In)Equity: An Evaluation of Cultural Responsiveness in Elementary ELA Curriculum https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/ejroc/lesso...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 158
Class Size Matters - The rally for smaller classes followed by three misleading claims from the DOE & SCA at the class size hearings Daily News - NYC Council demands progress report on class size reduction The City Council hearing - http://tinyurl.com/classsizehearing The rally before the hearing video Leonie's written testimony Educational Council Consortium testimony Testimony of Michael Sill, Assistant Secretary of the United Federation of Teachers...
Mar 10, 2024•56 min•Ep. 157
Retiree Advocate The New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees The Wire: UFT RTC election race launches with Retiree Advocate/UFT slate announced at UFT HQ Work Bites: ‘We Will Be in This Building!’ Medicare Advantage Foes Launch Bid to Win Control of UFT Chapter The Wire: Mulgrew and UFT Unity, Not MLC, Initiated Health Cuts...
Feb 25, 2024•58 min•Ep. 156
Sign up to testify at NYC Council class size hearings on Feb. 29 at 1 PM News articles on NYS Legislature education budget hearings: NY1 and The City here and here Class Size Matters budget testimony Class Size Matters T estimony on Mayoral control and presentation to the NYC Bar Association Purchase Laura Pappano's book, School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education at Beacon Press or Amazon USA Today, In school board elections across America, voters offer...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 155
NYS - GOVERNOR HOCHUL ANNOUNCES HIGHLIGHTS OF FY 2025 EXECUTIVE BUDGET Gothamist - Profoundly disappointed': Hundreds of NY schools could get less state money in new budget NYSUT releases analysis on Governor Hochul’s executive budget: Broken promises and backtracking Chalkbeat NY - Hochul proposes more than $800 million funding increase for NY schools, 4-year extension of mayoral control Alliance For Quality Education Take Action: AQE Petition Learn more: FundOurFutureNY.org...
Jan 28, 2024•52 min•Ep. 154
Leonie Haimson, Testimony on the myth of accountability under Mayoral control Schedule and videos of Mayoral control hearings Politico, Lawmakers to consider Adams approach to class size as they weigh mayoral control Submit written comments on Mayoral control by Jan. 31, 2024 here: https://www.nysed.gov/main/form/submit-written-electronic-testimony-nyc-mayoral-control Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire Student Privacy Matters, Background of inBloo...
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 153
How to shrink class sizes in NYC? A working group shares its recommendations Recommendations from Class Size Working Group NYC’s class size working group delivers recommendations — but some members dissent NYC migrant families fear kids will be sleeping in the streets as shelter deadlines near Thousands of migrant kids are starting school in NYC. Is the system prepared?...
Jan 07, 2024•55 min•Ep. 152
Sources: Diane Ravitch -Website Network of Public Education NAEP scores show record drop in math for New York City’s fourth graders, but not in reading American Students Outperformed Much of the World During the Pandemic Federal Judge Orders NYC to Fix Special Education Service and Payment Delays Mayoral control comes under fire at Bronx public hearing GOP states are embracing vouchers. Wealthy parents are benefitting. AB Snyder: Book bans are the new norm in school libraries across the country ...
Dec 31, 2023•55 min•Ep. 151
Gaspare Randazzo's site Gaspare on Instagram Chalkbeat NY - Mayoral control comes under fire at Bronx public hearing New York City Mayoral Control Hearings Info View Bronx hearing video Mayoral control in the eyes of three NYC parent leaders...
Dec 17, 2023•57 min•Ep. 150
Class Size Matters & AQE, Press release and letter to SED , urging that NYC be required to produce a corrective action plan on class size reduction. Register to Testify at NYC Council Hearing on budget cuts Monday, December 11th, at 10:00am; Progressive caucus rally against budget cuts that morning at 9 AM in City Hall Park. NYSED Schedule of mayoral control hearings , Dec. 5 thru Jan. 29 in various boroughs The City: Two Years of Mayoral School Control for Eric Adams — With New Strings Atta...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 149
Class Size Matters - More than 300,000 NYC Students in High-Need Schools Stuck in Oversized Classes City and State - Report: More than 300K NYC students are in overcrowded classrooms UFT: Fight the mayor's budget cuts Andrea Castellano's remarks at yesterday's class size press conference at the Landmark elementary school in Brooklyn...
Nov 26, 2023•57 min•Ep. 148
Class Size Matters press release, Class Sizes increase for second year in a row in most grades National Education Association, Who were the big winners in the 2023 elections h American Prospect, Right Wing groups post big losses at the ballot box Chicago Sun Times, With one year until Chicagoans elect the school board for the first time, here’s what’s still being worked out Diane Ravitch blog, What You Need to Know about the Illinois Voucher Program that Was Cancelled by the Legislature NY State...
Nov 22, 2023•55 min•Ep. 147
Community Voices for Public Schools and their petition Houston Public Radio, 29 Houston schools will look different next school year — cameras in classrooms, no librarians, higher pay for teachers Texas Observer, Teachers Strong-Armed to Get on Board with Houston Schools Takeover NY Times, Texas Revamps Houston Schools, Closing Libraries and Angering Parents Washington Post, State takeovers of ‘failing’ schools are increasing. Do they help students? Washington Post, The Real story behind the sta...
Nov 10, 2023•49 min•Ep. 146
NYC schools with enrollment shortfalls face cuts; more budget losses loom Mayor Adams Announces Tentative Contract Agreement With Council of School Supervisors and Administrators Families of students with disabilities file federal complaint over busing discrimination...
Oct 29, 2023•51 min•Ep. 145
Sean Enfield's website Pre-order his new book: Holy American Burnout! NEA: Getting Serious About Teacher Burnout National Help Line
Oct 22, 2023•55 min•Ep. 144
Articles on confusions and miscommunication during the October 19 rainstorm and flooding of NYC schools: Chalkbeat , Gothamist , NY Post UNESCO report by Mark West, Ed tech tragedy? Educational Technologies and School Closures in the time of COVID-19 NY Times article on the report...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 143
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer bio Gothamist - NYC schools open amid flooding as parents wonder how students will get home Chalkbeat New York - Torrential downpour floods 150 NYC schools, throws commutes into disarray NYC DOE Emergency Readiness NYC Green Schools Guide City green plan for schools Federal bill for green new deal for schools just introduced by Bowman and Markey...
Oct 01, 2023•57 min•Ep. 142
Chalkbeat, COVID guidance for NYC schools https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2023/9/12/23870420/nyc-schools-covid-guidance-2023-2024-testing-vaccines UNESCO report, An Ed Tech Tragedy? https://www.unesco.org/en/digital-education/ed-tech-tragedy NY Times article about the UNESCO report https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technology/unesco-report-remote-learning-inequity.html Class Size Matters presentation on the ways DOE is putting student privacy at risk https://classsizematters.org/the-many-ways-in-which...
Sep 25, 2023•57 min•Ep. 141
Professor Noliwe Rooks bio Broken air conditioners mean some NYC students return to hot classrooms NYC students and school staff swelter in class with nearly 500 AC repairs needed Back to School Heat Wave: How Should the UFT Respond? Call to Action: Does your Classroom/School have functioning AC? Complete this survey to help in this campaign: http://tinyurl.com/nycdoeacsurvey...
Sep 10, 2023•57 min•Ep. 140
