Articles about “DoE”
Queens Principal Accused Of Having Sex In School With Guard & Teacher
Annie Schmutz Seifullah (L, via Twitter; R, one of the photos found on a school computer) A Queens principal has been removed from her position after she was accused of having sex with a guard, an...
Queens Teacher Arrested For Online Sexual Relationship With Minor
Photograph Alex Noz/Shutterstock A Queens teacher has been charged with conducting an online relationship with a minor. Monsur Khan, 33, was arrested last night in Bayside for "promoting sex and sexual acts" with a girl under...
Brooklyn School Officials Failed To Report Repeated Sexual Assault Of 11-Year-Old Girl
An assistant principal and a guidance counselor at a Brooklyn public school are under fire this week after an investigation determined they mishandled an 11-year-old girl's allegations that she was being sexually abused by fellow students....
Parents, Kids, Teachers Apoplectic Over Lack Of Snow Days
Have fun, kids! (Jay Gorman) The snow is literally ricocheting off of anything foolish enough to cross its path, which today apparently includes the tender faces of children forced to endure the torrential flakes as they...
Brooklyn Teacher Exchanged Thousands Of Sexts With DOE Investigator
(rangizzz / Shutterstock) A Brooklyn teacher and a DOE investigator charged with scrutinizing her conduct engaged in an affair over their cell phones, exchanging explicit photos and videos until the teacher reported the relationship 11 months...
DOE Refusing To Hand Over Records To Avonte Oquendo's Mom
A missing poster on the Upper West Side (Jen Chung / Gothamist) The mother of Avonte Oquendo, the autistic child whose remains were found in the East River last week, has sued the city to obtain...
Man Slashed In Face By Teens While Shoveling Snow Outside School
joelzimmer's flickr A man was slashed in the face by three teens while shoveling snow outside a school in East Harlem early this morning. According to police, the incident happened just before 4 a.m. this morning...
Teacher Caught With Prostitute After-Hours Argues DOE Can't Punish Him
Google Maps Nothing beats a long day grading half-written papers on Johnny Tremain like a little post-work hooker nookie, and, like the Founding Fathers before them, school teachers have just as much right as anyone to...
Brooklyn Teacher Claims School Investigator Blackmailed Her Into Sexting Him
Shutterstock/Lisa F Young In the latest example of sad adults sadly looking for sex in the wrong places, a Brooklyn teacher has accused a Department Of Education investigator of sexually harassing her and blackmailing her into...
Mom Claims 3rd Grader Was Forced To Give Oral Sex To Three Classmates
A Harlem mom claims in a lawsuit that her 8-year-old son was forced to perform oral sex on three other elementary school kids in a public school bathroom last year. The mother, whose name is being...
Testing Error Screws 2,700 NYC Kids Out Of Gifted And Talented Programs
Shutterstock/Levent Konuk As if it isn't already hard enough to get a kindergartner to sit through a standardized test , 2,700 New York City public school students have been wrongly shut out of the city's gifted...
FREAK OUT: City Wants To Turn UWS Schools Into High Rises
P.S. 199 is ONLY three stories? TEAR IT DOWN (Jen Chung / Gothamist). Super easy way to freak out New York City parents? Threaten to tear down (or rezone) their schools! And, because the Department of...
Little Focus On English, Math At Ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn Schools
Courtesy ultraclay!'s flickr What's a little algebra worth when you've got Talmudic principles and prayer down pat? For the ultra-Orthodox communities in Brooklyn, the answer is apparently not much at all—according to DNAinfo, yeshivas in communities...
The 2013 School Bus Strike Has Begun
A scene from a new ad supporting the school bus drivers. As promised, around 6 a.m. this morning more than 8,000 school bus drivers in Local 1181 of the Amalgated Transit Union went on strike, leaving...
What iCrime? Quinn Wants To Replace Kids' Textbooks With Tablets
Quinn serves breakfast at PS 188, via Facebook City Council Speaker/Prospective NYC Mayor Christine Quinn unveiled a whole bunch of new education policy proposals today, including one to replace school textbooks with electronic tablets. Which sounds...
NYC School Bus Strike Starts Wednesday AM
An artist's rendering of the situation (NBC). And the school bus strike appears to be on. The strike, which Schools Commissioner Dennis Walcott calls "irresponsible and disrespectful," will begin on Wednesday morning according to Local 1181...
DOE Secretary Busted For Using School Credit Card To Buy McDonalds And Other Crap
(Flickr User Sandcastlemitt) A couple Quarter Pounders got pretty expensive for one former high school employee yesterday, who was fined $9,000 by the city when they discovered she was using the school's Department of Education-issued credit...
Female Brooklyn Teacher Accused Of Sexually Abusing 13-Yr-Old Female Student
Urszula Jankowska (inset) was a teacher at the Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design. Urszula Jankowska, a 33-year-old English teacher at the Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, was arrested yesterday and charged with...
Park Slope School Rezoning Approved
The new zones as the Department of Education presented them in early November (DOE). Getting your kids into the "right" Park Slope public school just got a bit trickier. Last night the Park Slope Community Education...
Hurricane Sandy Closes NYC Schools For 5 Days, Most Since "Asbestos Week" Of 1993
Looking at your reflection in a puddle is like going to school (beanhead4529's flickr). Mayor Bloomberg just announced that in the wake of Hurricane Sandy public schools in the city will remain closed for the rest...
Teachers Stop Showing Up For Work, Keep Getting Paid
The city's Department of Eduction just can't help paying employees to do nothing. Though the DOE's infamous rubber rooms have been well documented, it seems the department has other ways to compensate educators for services not...
Astoundingly Stupid Teacher Allegedly Brought 18 Bags Of Heroin To Jury Duty
None of this would have happened if Tia Carrere were there. Jury duty has turned into a serious drag for one teacher at the Williamsburg School of Architecture and Design. But that is what happens when...
Proposed Park Slope School Zones REVEALED
The pink is what the DOE is proposing be removed from P.S. 321's current school zone. Last night Park Slope parents got a look at the potential, controversial new school zone for the area and you'll...
Park Slope School Rezoning Proposal Has Parents Petrified
Memories. When it comes to modern public education in New York City it is all about location, location, location. So the fact that parents in Park Slope and Washington Heights are a bit alarmed over plans...
Ask A Rubber Room Teacher Anything Right Now
Earlier today we talked a little bit about Staten Island teacher Francesco Portelos, who says he has been spending his days in a DOE rubber room alone since April—and now he is live streaming video to...
DOE Exec Told Staffers To Lose The Muffin Tops, Camel Toes, Lawsuit Alleges
A well-paid executive at the Department of Education has been targeted in a gender discrimination lawsuit accusing him of being a misogynistic butthead who'd make Michael Scott blush. James T. Shea, the CEO of the DOE's...
Some NYC Public Schools Now Offering Morning-After Pill
According to a report in the Post, over a dozen public schools around the city have begun to give out morning-after pills such as Plan B. So far, students at 13 high schools have received the...
Stuyvesant Asking Students To Sign No Cheating Contracts
With a new principal in place after last spring's cheating scandal, the crown jewel of New York City's Department of Education—Stuyvesant High School—is getting serious about academic honesty, it seems. Just like new principal Jie Zhang...
Teacher Who Screwed Student Gets Slap On The Wrist
Charles Oross (Special Commissioner of Investigation) School started this week for most New Yorkers, but not for Charles Oross. The 45-year-old former Queens middle school teacher instead resigned yesterday from the Department of Education and prepared...
Teachers Missed More School Than Students At Queens High School
Something's missing... (Shutterstock/gualtiero boffi) You know things are really bad when the kids are showing up to school more than the teachers—especially when it's a relatively new school. According to the Post, the 15 teachers at...