Articles about “DoE”
Queens Middle School Teacher Arrested For Sexual Relationship With 13-Yr-Old Student
Charles Oross has been charged with rape (Special Commissioner of Investigation) Charles Oross, a 44-year-old teacher at IS 238 in Queens, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in a lengthy sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student...
Comptroller: Dept. Of Education Overpaying For Parsley, Scallions
The Tweed Courthouse, home of the Department of Education (Wallyg's flickr). Food prices keep going up, sure, but some of this is absurd! In its second audit this month related to food in the city, the...
City Announces 19 Schools On The Chopping Block
The Tweed Courthouse, home of the Department of Education (Wallyg's flickr). "These aren't marginally bad schools or non-performing schools," Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday regarding the list of schools the Department of Education wants to shut down...
Video: Bloomberg Just Really Wants Good Teachers, Okay?
Bloomberg talking earlier today at Facebook (nycmayorsoffice's flickr). After CBS 2 noticed an interesting quote Michael Bloomberg gave regarding education this week (in a hypothetical world, if he could—and he can't—he "would cut the number of...
Bloomberg: I Would Cut The Number Of Teachers In Half
"Really, it doesn't look like there enough children in here. Wouldn't this look much better with twice as many rugrats?" (nycmayorsoffice's flickr). [Update below] Mayor Bloomberg was apparently full of interesting things to say while talking...
Mom: Public Middle School Is Teaching My Kid To Hate Arabs!
Lesson one! (olly / shutterstock) At what point do you start teaching kids the complicated geopolitics of the Middle East and how much detail on each side do you give? That is the question brought up...
Parental Griping Successfully Waters Down Required Sex-Ed
Preschoolers could be doing this! (Shutterstock) Last week we learned that students in city schools would be taught about sexual intercourse and its implications as the DOE set one semester of required cirriculum for sixth or...
Only 37% Of NYC High School Grads Are Ready For College
Can you guess which of these four is ready for college? (Armadillo Stock / shutterstock) The new "report cards" for New York City's public high schools are out (you can read them here) and they do...
Parent Freak Out: Sex Ed To Be Taught In City Schools Next Year
Preschoolers could be doing this! (Shutterstock) Brace yourselves: sex ed arrives at the city's middle and high schools next year, and it. Will. Be. SEXY. According to the Post, high school students will note the cost...
Some City Teachers In It For The Hugging
As anyone who has seen the documentary Dangerous Minds knows, teaching is pretty difficult. But a few simple guidelines will make getting tenure easier: don't tell your students about your sexual exploits, brandishing a box cutter...
DOE Official Guilty Of Sexually Abusing, Assaulting Wife
Andy Dean Photography The high-ranking Department of Education official who was arrested in the winter and accused of sexually torturing his wife with hammers, nails and hangers has been found guilty of sexually abusing and assaulting...
Bronx Teacher Arrested For Molesting Student For Years
A Bronx elementary school teacher has been arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a boy. According to NY1, 35-year-old Tulsie Singh was suspended without pay in January and finally fired for his job at PS 306...
Bronx Borough President Demands Investigation Of Toxic School Risks
P.S. 51 (Via NY1) At PS 51 in the North Bronx, students have been learning their ABCs and their TCEs. No, TCE isn't a newfangled standardized test—it's the potentially carcinogenic chemical trichloroethylene! There was already an...
Elderly Teacher Claims She Was Fired Over Bathroom Breaks
An octogenarian teacher who says she was fired from her job because she couldn't physically take every kindergartener on a bathroom break is suing to get reinstated. And worst of all, the physically impaired 80-year-old Lillie Leon...
Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Top Public Schools Not Worth It, Says Study
AdRock didn't actually go to Stuy Sending your teenage terror to one of the city's top public math and science high schools doesn't necessarily mean much when it comes to later standardized test scores, according to...
No More Free Rides: Only 58% Of Eligible Teachers Got Tenure This Year
(Laser Burners' flickr). Mayor Bloomberg kept saying that he wanted to make it harder for teachers to get tenure without good test scores, and he wasn't kidding. This year just 58 percent of the teachers up...
Dangerous Minds: Bedbugs Can't Get Enough Of Our Schools
Skyline photo via Bluejake, photoshop by Sarah Bibi Still doubtful that bedbugs are taking over New York City? Try these numbers on for size: In the 2008-9 school year there were 542 confirmed cases of the...
Walmart Funds City's Free Summer Meals Food Trucks, Asks Nothing In Return
Presumably, the trucks won't be actual Walmart trucks (walmartcorporate's flickr). The city may have cut back the number of locations for its free summer food for kids program, but thanks to donation happy Walmart, it's taking...
City Slashes Free Food For Kids Program By 22 Percent
The Department of Education's main focus is, reasonably, educating the next generation. But it also serves another important function: feeding hungry children. And that is true when school is in session and when it is not....
School Librarians Are Allowed To Touch Students, Whisper
"Touching students and whispering in their ear are acceptable practices to maintain order in the library," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez ruled yesterday. And with that former Stuyvesant High School librarian Christopher Asch was vindicated...
Bronx Teacher Blames Stillbirth On Job Conditions, Sues DOE
Via hoyachicknyc's Flickr A Bronx teacher is suing the city's Department of Education, claiming that the principal of her school forced her to perform tasks that caused the stillbirth of her baby. Rachel Wolff, a tenured...
City And State Squabble Over $200 Million In Education Funds
What if the real reason your kid hasn't had any art classes, or if his classroom has 40 people jammed into it, is just a big misunderstanding? City government just made an oopsie with $200 million...
Unpossible! Only 21% Of High School Grads Are Prepared For College
It isn't just elementary and middle school students who need lots of remediation, the State Education Department has released a trove of data that paints a disturbing picture of our high school graduates. In New York...
34,000 Middle And Elementary Students Will Spend Their Summer Studying
A whole lot of elementary school and middle school students, about 50 percent more than last year, are going to be hitting the books this summer according to the Department of Education. How many? An estimated...
Cronyism: Ex-Schools Chancellor Lands $27 Million No Bid State DOE Contract For News Corp.
Joel Klein (wikicommons). It isn't just the New York City Department of Education that has some suspicious and very expensive contracts, the New York State Department of Education has some curious deals of its own. Like...
Last Call For Foreign Language Regents Exams
New York City may be home to an estimated 800 languages but when it comes to the New York State Regents exams, the only one that counts is English. Next week New York students will take...
Imports From China: Applesauce Conspiracy Afoot!
If Connecticut is the land of steady habits, and California is the land of milk and honey, then New York is certainly the land of the (big) apple: apples are our state fruit, apple muffins are...
The DOE Has A $1 Billion Dollar Consultant Problem
The Tweed Courthouse, home to the consultant-heavy Department of Education (WikiCommons). The Department of Education, meant to be one of the defining triumphs of Michael Bloomberg's mayoral career, has become a "fiscal black hole" with a...
To Grade Teachers, NYC Wants To Give Kids More Tests
The Tweed Courthouse, home of the Department of Education (Wallyg's flickr). Hey, parents, get ready for your kids to cram: Due to Federal Race to the Top funding rules, the Department of Education is currently working...
DOE Official Eyed In Another Computer Contractor Scandal
The Tweed Courthouse, home of the Department of Education (Wallyg's flickr). For a technocrat with an inarguably successful business track record, Mike Bloomberg's administration sure keeps having problems with scheming computer contractors. On top of the...