Marie Pollicino Complaint: January 2, 2008
Complaint submitted on January 2, 2008 by Marie Pollicino with the State Education Department over unlawful changes made to A-655.
Amina Rachman Affidavit in Marie Pollicino Case: July 23, 2008
Amina Rachman, UFT Representative, submits Affidavit in Marie Pollicino Case July, 23, 2008.
Receiver & Renewal List: September 15, 2015
Receivership & Renewal Lists, September 15, 2015 Renewal Receivership
Why Parents Opt Out and Our Lawsuit vs The City on School Leadership Team Meetings
August 28, 2015 Dear Friends, A few quick links I wanted to share with you. Last week, I wrote an op-ed with Jeanette Deutermann of Long Island Opt for City and State about why an estimated 225,000 NY parents chose to have their children refuse the state exams last year. Despite the rash of editorials excoriating parents for […]
Update on struggling schools scandal and our C4E comments
August 17, 2015 Dear Friends, I wanted to bring to your attention to a piece I wrote in today’s Gotham Gazette, that puts the recent credit recovery scandals in context and proposes an alternative vision for NYC struggling schools. Please take a look and let me know what you think! Saturday was the deadline for comments […]
Update on state tests and opt outs, our meeting with new Commissioner, and last chance to sign petition on class size!
August 13, 2015 Dear Friends, The state test scores were released yesterday and they were nothing to brag about. As before, the vast majority of studentsscored Level 1 or 2, and there was only a very small uptick in those scoring Level 3 or 4 (supposedly proficient.) The big story was the number of opt outs, […]
The city’s attempt to bury the news of its rejection of the Blue Book Working Group’s recommendations on class size
July 31, 2015 Yesterday, in the middle of summer, the DOE finally released the recommendations of its own Blue Book working group, recommendations which had been finalized last December, according to several reliable sources. (Chalkbeat wrongly reports the date as March.) See also Schoolbook, WNYC radio and DNAinfo, for more information on the recommendations — […]
Update on city’s decision to reject class size recommendations of DOE working group
July 30, 2015 Dear Friends, On Tuesday, the city announced it would reject the recommendations of the Blue Book Working Group, appointed by the Chancellor and co-chaired by the head of the School Construction Authority, to incorporate smaller classes into the school utilization formula. The city suppressed these recommendations for more than six months, and […]
Our comments at last night’s C4E hearings
The DOE is holding annual borough hearings on their 2015-2016 Contracts for Excellence (C4E) plan, as required by state law. The C4E program, established in 2007 in response to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, provides targeted state funds that were supposed to be used to reduce class size and other approved goals in NYC and […]
Update on Senate bill, Pearson’s lost testing contract, our SLT lawsuit, and borough hearings on class size
July 10, 2015 Dear Friends, 1. Though school may be out, there’s a lot happening in the education world. Right now the Senate is debating a bi- partisan bill to revamp No Child Left Behind, called the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA). For the first time in 13 years, there is a real chance to […]
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Talk out of School: WBAI Sunday at 7 PM EST or as a podcast
Talk out of School radio show and podcast airs Sunday night at 7 PM on WBAI 99.5 FM or online at www.wbai.org when Leonie Haimson and Daniel Alicea interview guests and discuss issues affecting public schools in NYC, the state level and nationally. You can stream or subscribe to the podcast here; or at iTunes, Spotify or Google.
Skinny award dinner honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman!
We held our annual Skinny award dinner Wed. June 28, 2023, honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman, former Bronx principal and now a progressive trailblazer who is fighting in Congress to protect and improve our public schools. More photos on Facebook .
