Articles about “DoE”
11 Students Arrested In NYC Schools Every Day, 95% Are Black Or Latino
(Runs With Scissors) The first full year of NYPD data mandated by the Student Safety Act is in, and the department's school safety division arrested or ticketed more than 11 students every day during the 2011-2012...
D'oh, A Deer! Crying Fawn Rescued From Manhole
Via NBC New York A little baby feer was rescued by Suffolk County responders after it fell 20 feet into a manhole in Mount Sinai. NBC New York reports, "Landscapers working by a vacant lot under...
Adorable Kid Gives Pro-Gay Marriage Speech To City Council
Kameron in the Council (zoetobin's twitter). Aww, remember Kameron Slade, the adorable 5th grader who wasn't allowed to give a speech on gay marriage at his school until the media caught wind of it? Well, the...
Queens Special Ed Provider Allegedly Overcharged NY By $1.5 Million, Audit
According to the office of State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli a Queens special ed provider has been overcharging the state for its services to the tune of $1.5 million [PDF]. An audit released today alleges that Bilingual...
Creepy Lawsuit Claims Queens Principal Was Way Too Hot For Teacher
Oh, there is a whole lot more to that card if you are feeling NSFW. Just scroll down to the court documents below... After a school year packed with stories of teachers accused of sexually abusing...
Teacher Fired For Wanting "Devil Spawn" Students To Drown Now Just Suspended
Not the teacher in question, but she doesn't look amused (Szasz-Fabian Ilka Erika / Shutterstock). Christine Rubino, the teacher who was fired for saying on Facebook she'd like to see her "devil spawn" fifth grade students...
Stuy Cheaters Must Retake Regents Exams They Cheated On
Wally G's Flickr And the Stuyvesant High School cheating scandal goes on. In the wake of the discovery of an ill-conceived, cellphone-based cheating ring for the State-wide Regents exam at the prestigious school, Department of Education...
So, How Much Do These "Desperate" Stuy Kids Cheat Anyway?
Stuyvesant Cheating occurs in all walks of life and people pay it no mind, but when it happens at a prestigious public school? Well, that's a horse of a different color! Just look at the "crown...
Stupid Stuyvesant High Cheating Ring Exposed, One Kid Expelled So Far
(Wally G's flickr) City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is reportedly "furious" after a Junior at the prestigious public Stuyvesant High School was caught using a smartphone to cheat (and help others cheat) on the statewide Regents...
5th Grader Gets To Give His Gay Marriage Speech, But Students Don't Have To Listen
Kameron Slade, giving his speech for the cameras (NY1). This morning's depressing story about a fifth-grader being barred by his principal from giving a speech about gay marriage has gotten a happy ending—sort of. Though awesome...
SI Assistant Principals Stole Students' Six Flags Tickets
Two assistant principals at a Staten Island middle school were fined $25,000 each by the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board yesterday for taking free Six Flags Great Adventure tickets meant for students and diverting them to...
Student Who Canoodled With Teacher To Win Bet "Really Started Feelin' For The Shorty"
Julie Warning, Eric Arty (both via Facebook) This has been a really tough week for horny high school teachers AND a really fantastic week for lusty tabloid headline writers. While English teacher Erin Sayar has turned...
Did Student Canoodle With Teacher To Win $500 Bet With Buddies?
Julie Warning, Eric Arty (both via Facebook) Yesterday, the NY Post plastered their front page with global studies teacher Julie Warning, the 26-year-old teacher at Manhattan Theater Lab HS who was reassigned by the Department of...
Teacher Allegedly Caught Canoodling With Student In Greenwich Village Park
If you get caught on video allegedly making out with your student in a public park, then you're probably doing something very wrong—and that's why the NY Post has plastered global studies teacher Julie Warning on...
DOE Would Like To Save Millions, Buyout Underused Teachers
Schools Commissioner Dennis Walcott (AP). One way to deal with the problem of teachers who don't have permanent jobs in the Department of Education but can't be laid off thanks to their union contract? Buy 'em...
DOE Creates Social Media Guidelines For Twittering Teachers
'OMG, you guys are not going to believe what Mr. Twinkletoes just tweeted.' (shock / shutterstock) Teachers looking to talk to their students on Facebook should think twice. The Department of Education has just released its...
Whose Leg Do You Have To Hump To Get Fired In Our Schools?
The Tweed Courthouse, home of the Department of Education (Wallyg's flickr). With a rash of Department of Education employees being arrested for inappropriate behavior—the Department's special commissioner of investigation has received 248 complaints of sex abuse...
NYC Schools' Banned Word List Gets The Boot
Remember the uproar when people found out about a list of words and phrases that the Department of Education no longer found acceptable for city-issued tests? The DOE would like you to forget about all that....
Bad Teacher? Student Claims He Was Duct Taped To Classroom Chair
(ronstik / shutterstock) A 12-year-old boy is claiming that his teacher at I.S. 399 in the Bronx taped him to a chair for 20 minutes during class last Friday. Since the incident the boy—who says he...
These 50 Words Shouldn't Be Banned From NYC School Tests, Says Pol
Earlier this week, we were pretty shocked/saddened to learn that the Department of Education had made up a list of words that were no longer acceptable for city-issued standardized tests. Y'know, words like birthday, poverty and...
NYC Public Schools To Stop Serving Slime, In September
"Pink slime" is getting the pink slip at New York's public schools, just as Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer wanted. The meat product (the industry calls it "lean finely textured beef" and uses it as filler...
Cleaning House: Eight More School Employees Face Firings Over Misconduct
Last month, in the midst of a spate of school employees being accused of sexual misconduct, Department of Education Chancellor Dennis Walcott promised a thorough review of school employees to make sure nobody with bad history...
Judge: Religious Services In Schools Can Continue, For Now
A church that operates inside P.S. 199 on the weekends (Jen Chung/Gothamist) Though it looked for a hot second like it was settled, the ongoing fight over having church groups worship in public schools is far...
14% Increase In Black, Latino Students At NYC's Top High Schools
Stuyvesant High School (Wiki). Amidst charges of sexually abusive teachers, depressing teacher evaluations and high student arrest numbers, the Department of Education finally had some good news to report yesterday. After years of decline, the number...
6th School Employee Charged With Sexual Misconduct This Month
Lynch leaves the station house (NY1). Another day, another New York City teacher arrested for inappropriate behavior with their students. Yesterday a Manhattan ROTC instructor at a Hell's Kitchen high school was arrested on charges he...
5 Students Arrested Each Day In NYC Schools, 90% Are Black Or Latino
(William Casey / shutterstock) It isn't just teachers getting arrested in our schools. According to new data released by the NYPD [PDF], an average of five students were arrested every day in the city's school system...
After 3 School Sex Abuse Charges, Chancellor Walcott Starts To Act
Schools Commissioner Dennis Walcott (AP). After a flood of alleged sexual abuse in New York City Public Schools (see here, here and here) Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is working fast to try and control the damage....
Bad Teacher Busted Playing Hooky By Spelling Errors
Mona Lisa Tello (Special Commissioner of Investigation handout) Some folks like to complain that teachers, with their summer vacations and school breaks, get too much vacation. But many teachers would heartily disagree. To wit: Hot on...
Teacher Fired For "Inappropriate" Relationship With Teen, While Dating Her Mom
(VIPDesignUSA/Shutterstock) A last-minute entry in this year's pervy teacher contest comes to us from Ozone Park, Queens, where a 44-year-old physical-education teacher has lost his job because of an "inappropriate relationship" with a teenage former student....
9-Yr-Old Bronx Boy Dies After Choking On School Meatballs
P.S. 47 in the Bronx (Google Maps). Angela Jewth is living a parent's nightmare. Her only son, 9-year-old Jonathan, died Wednesday—nine days after a choking incident at his Bronx school left him clinging to life in...