Gov. Hochul must help Mayor Eric Adams renew mayoral control of NYC public schools
Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published Jan. 7, 2024, 7:26 p.m. ET Mayoral control of New York City public schools is on the cusp of extinction: If the Legislature weakens it any more this year, the United Federation of Teachers will effectively be calling the shots. The UFT is already all too close, having […]
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Educrat accused of ‘misleading’ City Council on pre-K staffing cuts | #citycouncil
Early childhood workers are accusing a top deputy of Schools Chancellor David Banks of “deliberately misleading” the City Council under oath. Kara Ahmed, deputy chancellor of early childhood education, testified at a City Council committee meeting Wednesday that hundreds of social workers and instructional coordinators who had received notices of their ouster in early September […]
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Chancellor Banks and Mayor Adams hire each other’s beaus
Schools Chancellor David Banks quietly promoted Mayor Adams’ girlfriend to a top job at the Department of Education, just months after Adams hired Banks’ girlfriend as a deputy mayor, The Post has learned. Banks named Tracey Collins — Adams’ longtime partner and NYC’s unofficial First Lady — the DOE’s “senior advisor to the deputy chancellor […]
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17 GOP State Attorneys General Say Biden’s Title IX Rewrite Jeopardizes Women’s Progress, Safety | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A Biden administration proposed rewrite of the landmark Title IX ban on discrimination in public school classrooms and athletic fields will repeal five decades of women’s progress in education and subject female athletes to physical injury and sexual assault, according to a coalition of 17 Republican state attorneys general. In a withering 37-page critique of […]
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Hochul again sells out Adams, NYC’s schoolchildren to serve her own interests
After weeks of hemming and hawing, Gov. Kathy Hochul last week signed the odious class-size bill. It’s a gift to teachers-union boss Michael Mulgrew, at the kids’ expense. Capping class size to 20 students in K-3, 23 in 4th through 8th grade and 25 in high school may sound like a grand idea — but […]
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Arkansas lawmakers question claims of teacher shortages
(The Center Square) – Members of the Arkansas Legislative Council grilled officials from the Department of Education on Thursday after they asked for a rule change on teacher licenses. An emergency rule would have allowed school districts to hire teachers with provisional licenses enrolled in an alternate educator preparation program. The candidate would be required […]
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Fake outrage over City Council’s ‘tiny’ school budget cut may spark bad precedents | #citycouncil
With school enrollment plummeting and the city needing to conserve cash for future deficits, Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council nodded at fiscal responsibility last month, slightly paring back education spending. Now this tiny cut is causing chaos. You’ve got to wonder: If the city can’t achieve this modest trim, what will happen when […]
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Mayor Eric Adams rips Albany on school control
Mayor Eric Adams fumed Wednesday about some state lawmakers he says are preventing him from improving the Big Apple’s public school system, labeling them “professional naysayers.” Adams’ response came after state legislators introduced a new bill Monday that would grant him control of the city’s public schools system for just two years — rather than the three-years […]
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