2020 News clips
Trump Executive Order on Private School Vouchers Denounced as ‘Last-Ditch Effort to Claim Victory’ in War on Public Education
By Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams
December 29, 2020
NYC’s $890M school bus deal lets de Blasio donor avoid pension debt: experts
By Susan Edelman, NY Post
December 12, 2020
Principals union chief says City Hall oversold full-time learning return
By Selim Algar, NY Post
December 10, 2020
NYC officials to ‘assess’ public school students to close ‘COVID-19 gap’
By Natalie Musumeci and Nolan Hicks, NY Post
December 10, 2020
De Blasio advierte que escuelas podrían cerrar el lunes por aumento del COVID-19 en NYC
By Edwin Martinez, El Diario
November 13, 2020
DOE set to quietly ink $900M bus contract
By Nolan Hicks, Susan Edelman, and Selim Algar, NY Post
November 12, 2020
Advocates worry how NYC will safeguard student data in the remote school era
By Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat
November 11, 2020
Amid Rising COVID Cases and Concerns About Instruction, NYC Parents Face Deadline for Returning Students to In-Person Learning
By Zoë Kirsch, The 74
November 11, 2020
How big (or small) are classes this year? NYC advocates want online and in-person breakdown
By Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat
October 23, 2020
De Blasio scandal donor lands school bus company bailout amid NYC cash crunch
By Selim Algar, Julia Marsh, and Nolan Hicks, New York Post
October 13, 2020
New York City Partially Compensates School Bus Companies for COVID-19 Shutdown
By Ruth Newton, School Transportation News
October 6, 2020
Francis Lewis Reopens Building for the Fall Semester
By Tony Wu, Francis Lewis News
October 5, 2020
NYC to pay school bus companies $106M for COVID-19 idling
By Susan Edelman, New York Post
October 3, 2020
Overwhelmed Teachers And Overcrowded Virtual Classes: Some Parents Say Remote Learning Is Failing Their Kids
By David Cruz, Gothamist
September 28, 2020
Amid Distance Learning Boom, Ed Tech Companies Profit From Lax Privacy Oversight
By Katya Schwenk, The Indypendent
September 26, 2020
State of Our Schools: Leonie Haimson
By News 12 Bronx Staff, News 12 Bronx
September 24, 2020
Zoom classes can have SEVENTY New York Public School students at a time, under new DOE rule
By Matthew Wright, Daily Mail
September 23, 2020
New York’s Online Class Sizes Could Reach Nearly 70 Students
By Lee Hawkins, Wall Street Journal
September 22, 2020
In-person learning begins for some NYC public school students
By Fox 5 NY Staff, Fox 5 NY
September 20, 2020
Remote classes swelling to ‘unconscionable’ sizes at NYC schools
By Susan Edelman, New York Post
September 19, 2020
Cuomo’s Choice: Tax the Rich or Starve the Schools
By Ross Barkan, The Nation
September 17, 2020
Carranza expands his DOE staff despite looming teacher shortage, layoffs
By Susan Edelman, New York Post
August 29, 2020
Community gardens could play key role in NYC’s outdoor learning plan — if the city lets them
By David Brand, Queens Daily Eagle
August 26, 2020
NYC mayor said 700,000 students are ready to come back to school this fall. Really?
By Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
August 12, 2020
Exclusive: NYC Teachers Union Launches Its Own Investigation of School Building Air Quality Amid COVID Threat, UFT President Says
By Zoe Kirsch, The 74 Million
August 5, 2020
NYC Teachers and Parents Are Questioning a Return to School
By Katya Schwenk, Indypendent
August 3, 2020
Two Keys to Solving the City’s School Crisis
By Felicia Kalan, Gotham Gazette
July 31, 2020
NYC Ombudsman proposes to delay opening of schools until October and start only with young children
By Edwin Martinez, El Diario
July 27, 2020
Calls grow louder to use NYC streets for outdoor learning this school year
By Amy Zimmer, Chalkbeat
July 24, 2020
The scramble for Edtech–just another data mining operation?
By Andrew Wood, DiEM25
July 23, 2020
Sacrificing the vulnerable: Politicians’ draconian response to New York City economic crisis
By Melissa Miccio, Freedom Socialist Party
July 21, 2020
Students in Crowded Schools Will get Less In-Person Instruction This Fall
By Jillian Jorgensen, Spectrum News NY1
July 10, 2020
School every three days? That could be the new reality of in-person learning in NYC
By Ashleigh Garrison, Chalkbeat
June 26, 2020
Regents to name task force on reopening schools, Rosa says
By Gary Stern, The Evening Tribune
May 27, 2020
Carranza’s claim he can’t cut $34B budget is a lie, advocates say
By Susan Edelman, NY Post
May 16, 2020
To Reopen Schools, The Mayor Needs Smaller Classes — Here’s $570 Million in Potential Department of Education Savings to Get Him Started
By Leonie Haimson, Gotham Gazette
May 12, 2020
‘A Dangerous Idea:’ Public School Advocates Denounce Cuomo-Gates Plan Seizing on Pandemic to ‘Reimagine’ New York’s Education System
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams
May 6, 2020
Cuomo questions why school buildings still exist — and says New York will work with Bill Gates to ‘reimagine education’
By Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
May 6, 2020
Cuomo Wants To “Reimagine Education” With Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation
By Sophia Chang, Gothamist
May 5, 2020
Coronavirus-style remote learning could replace old model of education, Cuomo says
By Selim Algar and Carl Campanile, NY Post
May 5, 2020
Cuomo Taps Gates Foundation to Help New York ‘Revolutionize’ Education After Coronavirus
By Lauren Camera, US News and World Report
May 5, 2020
Consider human costs in economic reopenings, Cuomo urges
By Marina Villeneuve and Michael Hill, ABC News
May 5, 2020
New York State Teams With Gates Foundation to “Reimagine Education’ Amid Pandemic
By Evie Blad, Education Week
May 5, 2020
Parents, Teachers, Electeds Blast The Proposed $800M Cuts To Schools, Suggest Trimming Bureaucracy Instead
By Liena Zagare, Bklyner
April 27, 2020
Council members call for NYPD hiring freeze instead of education cuts
By Selim Algar, New York Post
April 27, 2020
NYC should pass all students amid coronavirus shutdown, advocates demand
By Susan Edelman, NY Post
April 25, 2020
City DOE postpones vote on millions in vendor contracts
By Susan Edelman and Kate Sheehy, New York Post
April 19, 2020
Cash-strapped NYC set to pour $700M ‘down the drain’ on idle school buses
By Susan Edelman, New York Post
April 18, 2020
Cuomo undercuts de Blasio’s efforts to close schools until fall
By Sally Goldenberg and Anna Gronewold, Politico
April 11, 2020
New York City Bans Zoom as Privacy Concerns Mount
By Mark Lieberman, Education Week
April 6, 2020
Coronavirus in NY: City spending $5.9 million a day for idled school buses
By Susan Edelman and Melanie Gray, New York Post
April 4, 2020
K-12 education moves to online across New York with uncertainty, inequity
By Sophie Grosserode and Gary Stern, Lohud
March 19, 2020
Bronx principal publicly shames struggling kids, teachers say
By Susan Edelman, New York Post
March 14, 2020
Advocates, Parents and Educators Push for Smaller Class Sizes
By Jillian Jorgenson, NY1
March 2, 2020
Treyger Holds Hearings on Reducing Class Size in Public School
By Shorefront News
March 1, 2020
Calls for smaller class size grow louder: NYC parents, students and educators say there’s a big need to rein in student seats
By Amy Zimmer, Chalkbeat
February 28, 2020
New York City Classrooms are Overcrowded, It’s Time for Elected Leaders to Act
By Leonie Haimson, Gotham Gazette
February 27, 2020
Michael Bloomberg’s Disastrous Public Education Legacy
By Leonie Haimson, Indypendent
February 25, 2020
The 2020 Education Power 100
By City & State NY
February 16, 2020
There’s a math test scheduled for Earth Day. Some NY lawmakers want to change that.
By Reema Amin, Chalkbeat
February 13, 2020
Using Amazon Echo, Google Home to Learn: Skill of the Future or Bad Idea?
By Mark Lieberman, EdWeek
February 4, 2020
New Mexico’s Data Privacy Efforts Stall, but There’s an Appetite to Pass Legislation
By Patrick Kulp, AdWeek
January 9, 2020
The Trouble with Student Data Privacy Laws
By Katie Fritchen, Security Boulevard
January 9, 2020
10 Things to Know About California’s New Data Privacy Law
By Mark Lieberman, EdWeek
January 6, 2020
