2012 News clips
NEWSCLIPS 2012
City Scraps Change to G&T Policy, and Other News of Note
Schoolbook by Beth Fertig
December 19, 2012
New ‘Trigger’ Law May Increase Number of Charter Schools
Scripps Howard by Kamrel Eppinger
December 13, 2012
School Rezoning’s Border Wars
The New York Times by Soni Sangha
November 23, 2012
New York City Mayoral Candidates Discuss Education
Epoch Times by Zachary Stieber
November 21, 2012
Educate All Kids like Sasha and Malia
In these Times by Leonie Haimson
November 21, 2012
New York State Board Of Regents Approves Utica Academy Of Science, State’s 4th Gulen Movement-Affiliated Charter School
Huff Post Education Blog
November 18, 2012
Not just candidates: Workers’ rights and education hang on ballot measures
Daily Kos Labor by Laura Clawson
November 5, 2012
Advocates Turn Up Pressure as City Mulls Overcrowding Tallies
GothamSchools by Geoff Decker
October 26, 2012
Parent Trigger Laws Don’t Give Parents a Voice
U.S. News Debate Club by Leonie Haimson
October 26, 2012
Proposed ‘de-zoning’ of Washington Heights school district gets mixed reviews from activists in Bronx
New York Daily News by Corinne Lestch
October 18, 2012
NY1 Exclusive: After Mistakes, State Officials Amend Contract With Test Producer
NY1 by Lindsey Christ
October 18, 2012
State releases agreement for data system that raised concerns
Gotham Schools by Philissa Cramer
October 15, 2012
Parent Activists Concerned About Student Database
WNYC News Blog by Alec Hamilton
October 15, 2012
Fear over student database in hands of Rupert Murdoch company
NY Daily News by Rachel Monahan
October 14, 2012
Parents Concerned That School Records Could Be Used To Make Money
CBS NY by Alex Silverman
October 14, 2012
NY parent activists worried about student database
The Wall Street Journal by the Associated Press
October 14, 2012
Parent activists worried about student database
WABC News by the Associated Press
October 14, 2012
Novel idea? Emphasis on nonfiction over fiction shaking up Illinois classrooms
The Chicago Tribune by Diane Rado
October 2, 2012
Does Class Size Affect Learning?
KNPR NV Radio
October 2, 2012
A struggling school, a bitter fight over ‘parent trigger’ law and no tidy Hollywood ending (a la ‘Won’t Back Down’) in sight
NBCNews by Natasha Lindstrom
October 2, 2012
“Won’t Back Down”: Corporate Education Reform and the Rhetoric of Fiction
Education Radio
September 29, 2012
New York Class Size: Nearly Half Of Public Schools Have Overcrowded Classrooms, UFT Says
The Huffington Post by Alex Kuczynski-Brown
September 26, 2012
UFT: City’s special education reforms causing class size crunch
GothamSchools by Philissa Cramer
September 25, 2012
Teachers Union Voices Concern Over Class Sizes
The Wall Street Journal Blog by Lisa Fleisher
September 25, 2012
Union: Special Ed Reforms Worsen Overcrowding
SchoolBook by Hiten Samtani
September 25, 2012
Growing pains: Union, teachers and students complain about crush of 6,620 oversized classes in city schools
New York Daily News by Jennifer H. Cunningham and Ben Chapman
September 25, 2012
We’re the real parents, and we won’t back down!
NewsWorks by Darcie Cimarusti
September 24, 2012
City Opening 4,000 Full-Day Pre-K Seats in High-Need Neighborhoods
DNAinfo.com by Jill Colvin
September 24, 2012
Thousands of City Students Have Trailers For Classrooms DNAinfo.com by Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska
September 20, 2012
School Yard Politics: A Guide to Who’s Playing
SchoolBook by Yasmeen Khan
September 17, 2012
One-on-one education
CNN: Schools of Thought by Chris Boyette
September 12, 2012
Teacher Unions Put to Test
CNBC: The Kudlow Show
September 11, 2012
The Reality and the Hype Behind Online Learning and the ‘School of One’
The Huffington Post by Leonie Haimson
September 7, 2012
Pushing for Class Size of One
The Wall Street Journal by Sophia Hollander
September 5, 2012
Canarsie principal creates larger classes to help teachers and students learn
Daily News by Mark Morales
September 05, 2012
Won’t Back Down” draws controversy
Democratic Underground
September 1, 2012
Shortfall in essays at elite N.Y.C. high schools
New York Daily News by Rachel Monahan
August 18, 2012
Trudy Lieberman on Medicare & the campaign; Leonie Haimson on “Won’t Back Down”
FAIR: CounterSpin
August 17, 2012
FAQ on the Controversial Film Won’t Back Down: What Parents Need to Know
The Huffington Post by Leonie Haimson
August 13, 2012
Common Core Standards Boon to E-Learning Industry
The New York Times SchoolBook by Hiten Samtani
August 3, 2012
Joe Smith: Tests Don’t Assess What Really Matters
TexasISD.com by Joe F. Smith
July 31, 2012
City’s $80M Student Data System To Be Replaced by State Portal
DNAinfo.com by Jill Colvin & Amy Zimmer
July 30, 2012
Tests Don’t Assess What Really Matters
New York Times by Leonie Haimson
July 29, 2012
State ed reform task force meeting draws a crowd, and some ire
Gotham Schools by Geoff Decker
July 26, 2012
Cut Education Now, Pay Later: ‘What Does This Kind Of Negligence Do To Our Students?’
Huffington Post by Lucia Graves
July 24, 2012
The Wall Street Journal Covers Up ALEC Link To Anti-Union School Privatization Law
Media Matters for America by Melody Johnson
July 24, 2012
‘Smaller Class Size’ Tops List Of Changes New York City Parents Want In Their Children’s Schools
Huffington Post
July 23, 2012
What Common Core Means for Publishers
Publishers Weekly by Karen Springer
July 18, 2012
Larger Class Sizes, Education Cuts Harm Children’s Chance To Learn
Huffington Post by Joy Resmovitz
July 17, 2012
Department of Education releases dropout statistics
The Riverdale Press by Sarina Trangle
July 11, 2012
Politicians Ignore Research, Say Smaller Class Size Makes No Difference
National Education Association by Ava Wallace
July 9, 2012
One Phone At A Time
WNYC Radio by Radio Rookies
July 3, 2012
Mayors Back Parent-Trigger Laws for “Drop-out Factories”
Special to Stateline by Teresa Wiltz
June 19, 2012
Storing Students’ Banned Cell Phones is Big Business in New York
The Nation by Peter Rothberg
June 19, 2012
$4M pay phones
New York Post by Pedro Oliveira Jr., Natasha Velez and Yoav Gonen
June 18, 2012
Comments of the week: interviews, testing and targets
Gotham Schools by Geoff Decker
June 15, 2012
City Official on Special Ed Plan: ‘This Is Going Forward’
New York Times by Kyle Spencer
June 14, 2012
Educating for Democracy: Awakening From the American Dream
Huffington Post by Joel Shatzky
June 12, 2012
US parents protest surge in standardized testing
Reuters by Stephanie Simon
June 12, 2012
The Lessons of Pineapplegate
New York Times by Leonie Haimson
June 6, 2012
Questioning Turnaround at Lehman High School in the Bronx
MetroFocus by John Farley
May 31, 2012
New York State Field Tests: ‘Students Should Not Be Informed’
Huffington Post by Gregory Kristof
May 28, 2012
California schools expand lessons with computer aid
TheReporter.com by the Associated Press
May 27, 2012
Obama Campaign ‘Truth Team’ Conflates Smears with Criticisms …
ABC News blog by Jake Tapper
May 26, 2012
Does Ed Secretary Duncan agree with Romney on class size?
Washington Post by Valerie Strauss
May 26, 2012
CEC District 29 mulls middle school choice
New York Daily News by Clare Trapasso
May 16, 2012
Fresh off “pineapple” episode, state identifies math exam errors
GothamSchools by Philissa Cramer
April 24, 2012
The pineapple, the eggplant, and the missed moral
Education Gadfly by Kathleen Porter-Magee
April 20, 2012
Talking pineapple question on state exam stumps … everyone!
Daily News by Rachel Monahan and Ben Chapman
April 19, 2012
As testing starts, critics plan post-teacher evaluation deal efforts
GothamSchools by Geoff Decker
April 18, 2012
Added Schools Lag Housing
Wall Street Journal by Joseph De Avila
March 13, 2012
What We Told the State Education Commissioner
NY Times by Katherine Sprowal
March 12, 2012
Queens to get about 3000 new classroom seats
New York Daily News by Clare Trapasso
March 8, 2012
He’s standing up for school
New York Daily News by Patrice O’Shaughnessy
March 8, 2012
Teacher evaluations shed light on effectiveness
Queens Courier by Michael Pantelidis
Feb. 28, 2012
State Eyes Shielding Teachers
Wall Street Journal by Lisa Fleisher and Jacob Gershman
February 27, 2012
Analysis: Shaming Teachers Is Not Good Educational Policy
NBC New York by Gabe Pressman
Feb 27, 2012
New York teacher evaluations used to deepen attack on public education
World Socialist Web Site by Philip Guelpa and Steve Light
Feb 26, 2012
With Release of Teacher Data, Setback for Union Turns Into a Rallying Cry
NY Times by Fernanda Santos and Anna M. Phillips
Feb 26, 2012
Winning and losing teachers
NY Daily News by Rachel Monahan
Feb. 24, 2012
video: Leonie Haimson On School System, Inaccuracies Of Teacher Evaluations
WPIX-11 News
February 23, 2012
Great Oaks proposal sparks larger debate over charters
Downtown Express by Aline Reynolds
February 22, 2012
Kids at closing schools better off – city
New York Daily News by Ben Chapman
Feb 1, 2012
Chelsea parent is an unlikely ally in the school closure fights
GothamSchools by Rachel Cromidas
January 30, 2012
New advocacy group with city roots enters state’s reform fray
GothamSchools by Geoff Decker
January 11, 2013
In blow, judge denies effort to force charter schools to pay rent
GothamSchools by Geoff Decker
Jan. 3, 2012
Charters Don’t Have to Pay Rent, for Now
New York Times by Anna M. Phillips
Jan 3, 2012
Public School Advocates Skeptical of Cuomo Education Reform Plans
PolitickerNY by David Freedlander
Jan. 2, 2012
