When Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, released that the state had graded all of state schools on a scale of A through F, the Acorn school principals and assistant principals were set to get bonuses for their outstanding academic achievements. Along with the Acorn school, administrators at four other schools that [...]
The city’s Department of Education has released a list of 74 schools that are to have their budgets cut by more than 5 percent. The list includes schools ranging from Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx High School of Science, to P.S. 5, the Huguenot School, an elementary school on Staten Island, to the Salk [...]
The Bloomberg administration has approved the new promotion policy that requires next year’s eighth graders to pass core courses and score at a basic level on English and Math standardized exams. The Panel for Education Policy approved the proposal of the new policy by a vote of 11 to 1 during its meeting at Tweed [...]
The Assembly in New York has passed a bill to ban city and other school districts linking tenure with the test score results of students. In order to decide on teachers tenure, the State legislation requires schools to follow the standards of the Board of Regents. The Times Herald Record reports that New York City [...]
Residents in Sachem, one of the largest school districts in the state of New York, have approved a $33.1 million issue for repairs, renovations and enhancement plans in each of Sachem’s 18 schools. The voting took place at all district elementary schools on Tuesday. Newsday.com reports that the cap will rise to four percent for [...]