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1. School Year's About to Start, And So, Too, Is A Big Change

Author

Medina, Jennifer and Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
New York, New York. Office of the Chancellor of Schools -- Evaluation -- Education policy, Educational reform -- Evaluation, Mayors -- Education policy, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, beaming over an array of charts and graphs showing New York City's rising high school graduation rates, turned to introduce Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein at […]

Published
2007

2. Restructuring Of Schools Is Detailed By Chancellor

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company organization, Company business planning, Company business management, Company restructuring/company reorganization, New York. Education Department -- Planning -- Education policy -- Management, Self-help groups -- Educational aspects, School principals -- Practice -- Educational aspects -- Planning, Public schools -- Reorganization and restructuring -- Management -- Educational aspects, Educational programs -- Educational aspects, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein unveiled new details yesterday about how the city school system will be organized once the 10 regional superintendent offices are abolished in September as part […]

Published
2007

3. Manhattan School Challenges U.S. Rules and Sends Students on a Spring Break Trip to Cuba

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Government regulation, New York. Education Department -- Powers and duties -- Education policy, School excursions -- Social aspects -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

When the city's Education Department said it would not let students from the Beacon School on the Upper West Side take a spring break trip to Cuba this year, the […]

Published
2007

4. Metro Briefing New York: Brooklyn: New Science Curriculum

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company financing, Sciences education -- Finance, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that the city would spend $30 million to improve science instruction in kindergarten through eighth grade during the next school year. At a news […]

Published
2007

5. Council Assails Mayor's Plan to Give Principals More Autonomy

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
School principals -- Powers and duties, Education and state -- Political aspects, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

City lawmakers yesterday harshly criticized the Bloomberg administration's plans to give many more public school principals wider autonomy in September, telling a top city schools official that there was not […]

Published
2007

6. As School Choice Starts Earlier, So Does the Frenzy

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Government regulation, School, Choice of -- Laws, regulations and rules, Middle schools -- Curricula -- Laws, regulations and rules, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Forget the mad scrum over elite colleges. Liam Walsh, age 10, is in a frenzied battle for a sixth-grade seat in a Manhattan public school. Since September, he has attended […]

Published
2007

7. Metro Briefing New York: Manhattan: More Problems Reported At Schools

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company business management, School safety -- Reports -- Management -- Safety and security measures, School violence -- Reports -- Safety and security measures, High schools -- Safety and security measures -- Reports, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

A mayoral report to be released today will show a citywide increase in school safety incidents, including crimes and other misbehavior, city education officials familiar with the data said yesterday. […]

Published
2007

8. A Bid to Cut Costs Becomes a School Bus Battle

Author

Herszenhorn, David M. and Gootman, Elissa

Subjects
Education and state, School buses, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

It seemed like an easy way to save millions of dollars: consolidate yellow school bus routes so New York City was no longer paying for buses for hundreds, if not […]

Published
2007

9. Small Schools To Be Added By September

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company business planning, New York, New York. Board of Education -- Education policy -- Planning, Education and state, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The city Education Department yesterday announced that it would open 20 small secondary schools in September, including five schools for students at serious risk of dropping out. But the department, […]

Published
2007

10. Day 2 of New School Bus Routes Fails to End Confusion

Author

Herszenhorn, David M. and Gootman, Elissa

Subjects
Students -- Transportation -- Usage, Education and state -- Usage, School buses -- Usage, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

For the second day, widespread confusion over changes in school bus routes roiled the New York City school system, leaving parents exasperated and bewildered. On the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, […]

Published
2007

11. Seeking Equity, School Chief Outlines a Financing Plan

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company business planning, Education -- Finance, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein yesterday laid out the first specifics of his ambitious plan to change the school financing system so that schools of similar sizes and demographics get […]

Published
2007

12. In a Sweeping New Vision for Schools, Big Risks for the Mayor

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Education and state, Mayors -- Education policy, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday effectively doubled his bet that the nation's largest school system is capable of unprecedented improvement, wagering the education of the city's nearly 1.1 million students […]

Published
2007

13. Metro Briefing New York: Manhattan: Top Education Adviser Resigns

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Educators -- Appointments, resignations and dismissals, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Michele Cahill, a top adviser to Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein, has resigned and will return in January to the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she worked before joining […]

Published
2006

14. Bucking Tide of School Reform, A Superintendent Gets Results

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company organization, Market trend/market analysis, Company restructuring/company reorganization, New York, New York. Department of Education -- Officials and employees -- Reorganization and restructuring -- Education policy, School management and organization -- Forecasts and trends -- Statistics, Academic achievement -- Statistics -- Forecasts and trends, School superintendents -- Behavior -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Achievements and awards, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Kathleen M. Cashin is responsible for some of the roughest territory in the New York City school system -- vast stretches of poverty and desolation from Ocean Hill-Brownsville and East […]

Published
2006

15. Court Orders Education Dept. Not to Cut 250 Bus Routes Yet

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Government regulation, Students -- Transportation -- Laws, regulations and rules, School buses -- Laws, regulations and rules, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

A State Supreme Court justice yesterday blocked the New York City Education Department from eliminating 250 school bus routes to help save up to $20 million a year. The court […]

Published
2006

16. City Weighs Bigger Private Role In Managing the Public Schools

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company business planning, Contract agreement, School management and organization -- Planning -- Contracts, Business-government relations -- Planning, Management contracts, Privatization -- Planning, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

In what would be the biggest change yet to the way New York City's school system is administered, officials are considering plans to hire private groups at taxpayer expense to […]

Published
2006

17. Simpler Process Set for Gifted Programs in City

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Standardized tests -- Usage, Talented students -- Education -- Evaluation -- Usage, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

New York City education officials announced plans yesterday to standardize admissions to programs for gifted students by requiring applicants to take a reasoning test and to be assessed by teachers […]

Published
2006

18. Many in City Summer School Won't Go On to Next Grade

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Summer schools, Education and state, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

More than half of the public school students urged to attend summer school for failing to meet Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's stiff promotion criteria will be forced to repeat a […]

Published
2006

19. Schools Chief Says Union Rules Lead Him to Create Unneeded Jobs

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
School administrators -- Behavior -- Labor relations, School principals -- Labor relations -- Behavior, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said yesterday that he would create unnecessary jobs at full pay for 44 assistant principals who have not found regular assignments despite numerous vacancies, rather […]

Published
2006

20. City Unveils a Plan to Urge Students to Take the PSAT

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company financing, College Board -- Finance -- Standards -- Education policy, Standardized tests, High school students -- Testing, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

New York City will pay the College Board $1.2 million a year in a push to get all of the city's high school sophomores and juniors, as many as 150,000 […]

Published
2006

21. City Educators Eliminating Night Schools For 14,000

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Evening and continuation schools -- Service discontinuation, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The New York City Education Department said yesterday that it would eliminate a dozen evening schools that had served about 14,000 students, most of whom were enrolled in school during […]

Published
2006

22. In Push to Open Small Schools, A Big Obstacle: Limited Space

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
School facilities, Schools -- Location -- New York, Education parks, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

With the Bloomberg administration pushing forward in its drive to create more than 200 small schools, city education officials have crashed into a cold reality that has long vexed New […]

Published
2006

23. Metro Briefing New York: Manhattan: Schools' Testing Chief To Resign

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Educators -- Appointments, resignations and dismissals, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The city school system's top testing official announced yesterday that she would resign at the end of this school year. The official, Lori Mei, 50, has played a central role […]

Published
2006

24. Mayor Firm on Phone Ban

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Wireless telephone, Wireless voice/data device, Government regulation, Cellular telephones -- Laws, regulations and rules, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg insisted yesterday that the city would not reconsider the ban on cellphones in the public schools despite a widening outcry from students, parents and public officials. [...]

Published
2006

25. CITY WILL OFFER HOUSING SUBSIDY TO LURE TEACHERS

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Industry hiring, Teachers -- Recruiting -- Compensation and benefits, Employee incentives, Housing subsidies, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

New York City will offer housing subsidies of up to $14,600 to entice new math, science and special education teachers to work in the city's most challenging schools, in one […]

Published
2006

26. Students to Get No Warning Before Searches

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Government regulation, Students -- Safety and security measures -- Usage -- Laws, regulations and rules, Searches and seizures -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Usage -- Safety and security measures, School violence -- Control -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Safety and security measures -- Usage, Metal detectors -- Usage, High schools -- Safety and security measures -- Usage -- Laws, regulations and rules, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday that police officers with metal detectors would conduct unannounced sweeps of students and their bags at middle schools and high schools throughout the city […]

Published
2006

27. City Rethinks Its Remaking Of the Schools

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company organization, Contract agreement, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Alvarez & Marsal L.L.C. -- Contracts -- Reorganization and restructuring, School management and organization -- Reorganization and restructuring, Consulting services -- Contracts -- Reorganization and restructuring, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The New York City schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, is once again rethinking the nation's largest school system. He has hired Chris Cerf, former president of Edison Schools, the commercial […]

Published
2006

28. Some Questions From Samples Appear on Tests

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Examinations, Educational tests and measurements, Mathematics, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

In the fall, when New York State Education Department officials distributed sample questions and answers for the annual standardized mathematics exam, they fully intended to help students study and prepare […]

Published
2006

29. City May Gain 200 Teachers Designated As Masters

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Contract agreement, Teachers -- Contracts -- Compensation and benefits, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Principals of troubled New York City schools will be permitted to hire master teachers, a position created in the latest teachers' contract that will pay veteran educators an additional $10,000 […]

Published
2006

30. Metro Briefing New York: Extra Costs For Tutoring Students

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company financing, Contract agreement, Teachers -- Contracts, Tutors and tutoring -- Services -- Finance, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The New York City Education Department said yesterday that it would pay about $24 million in additional busing costs for students who receive after-school tutoring when a new labor contract […]

Published
2006

31. Tutoring Plan Draws Fire At City Schools

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Government regulation, Tutors and tutoring -- Laws, regulations and rules, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

A provision in New York City's new teachers' contract that will require struggling students to stay for 37 1/2 minutes of after-school tutoring is causing confusion and drawing fierce complaints […]

Published
2006

32. Parents Seek Greater Voice In Schools From Chancellor

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Government regulation, Parent-teacher relationships -- Reports -- Laws, regulations and rules, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

After months of complaints about the Bloomberg administration's treatment of public school parents, the chancellor's Parent Advisory Council has issued a demanding set of requests to Schools Chancellor Joel I. […]

Published
2005

33. Mayor Says State Inaction Will Block New Schools

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Real estate development, Public schools -- Buildings and facilities, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

New York City will be forced to delay more than 23 major school construction projects scheduled to begin this fiscal year unless New York State begins to comply with a […]

Published
2005

34. Unions and City Spar Over After-School Tutoring

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company financing, Labor relations, Teachers -- Labor relations, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

New York City will have to spend millions of dollars on student bus transportation to create the after-school tutoring sessions that are a centerpiece of the new teachers' contract, according […]

Published
2005

35. Mayor Plans New Education Measures, Including Reshaping 8 Troubled High Schools

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company organization, Company financing, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- Donations -- Education policy -- Political activity, Education -- Finance, High schools -- Finance -- Reorganization and restructuring, Charitable foundations -- Donations, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced an array of initiatives yesterday to improve the city's public high schools, including 15 new 'transfer' schools for students in danger of dropping out and […]

Published
2005

36. Admission Test's Scoring Quirk Throws Balance Into Question

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Government regulation, High schools -- Laws, regulations and rules, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

For weeks, Joshua N. Feinman had graded practice tests to help his daughter prepare for New York City's specialized high school exam. Then one day, he took a hard look […]

Published
2005

37. Metro Briefing New York: Manhattan: Teachers Approve Contract Deal:

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Contract agreement, Teachers -- Labor relations -- Contracts, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

New York City's public-school teachers have approved a 52-month contract agreement with the Bloomberg administration that calls for raises of 15 percent, ends some seniority rights in filling positions and […]

Published
2005

38. Progress and Concerns Noted In Special Education System

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company business management, Education -- Standards, Special education -- Evaluation -- Reports -- Management, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

A study of New York City's special education system by a team of independent experts has found that the Bloomberg administration 'is moving special education in positive directions.' But the […]

Published
2005

39. Metro Briefing New York: Brooklyn: Ultimatum From Teachers' Union

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Contract agreement, United Federation of Teachers -- Labor relations -- Endorsements -- Education policy, Teachers -- Contracts -- Labor relations, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The New York City teachers' union last night issued an early October deadline for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to offer them a new contract. The current contract expired in May […]

Published
2005

40. Schools Chief Urges Teacher Pay Changes

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Salary, Teachers, Wages, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein on Monday called for sweeping changes to the way teachers are paid and said that the creation of signing bonuses, pay differentials and merit raises […]

Published
2005

41. Corporate Coalition Issues Upbeat Report on City Schools

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company business management, Company financing, Cities and towns -- Education policy -- Analysis, Education and state -- Management -- Analysis -- Finance, Public schools -- Standards -- Analysis, Mayors -- Education policy -- Analysis, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The Partnership for New York City, a consortium of the city's top corporations and business leaders, issued a progress report yesterday on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's effort to fix the […]

Published
2005

42. $250 Million City Program To Promote Charter Schools

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Company business planning, Company financing, Charter schools -- Planning -- Buildings and facilities -- Finance, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

In the city's most aggressive effort yet to promote the creation of charter schools, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said yesterday that the city would pay up to two-thirds of […]

Published
2005

43. Lawmaker and Educator Propose Incentive Pay for Teachers in Troubled Schools

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Education and state, Teachers -- Compensation and benefits, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Representative Charles B. Rangel and Arthur Levine, the president of Teachers College at Columbia University, urged the Bloomberg administration and the teachers' union yesterday to create pay incentives of $10,000 […]

Published
2005

44. More Third Graders Promoted After Summer School This Year

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Promotion (School), New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

More third graders earned promotion after attending summer school this year than last year, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday, though nearly half of those who attended still could not […]

Published
2005

45. Chancellor Vows to Keep Training Program for Principals

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
School principals -- Training, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein said yesterday that he remained 'strongly committed' to an expensive, privately-financed training program for principals and suggested that the program would continue even if the […]

Published
2005

46. City Schools and Teachers Revise Plan on Workday for 4th Time

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Teachers -- Labor relations, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The city Education Department and the teachers' union agreed yesterday to change the work schedule for teachers, the fourth such change in four years. For students, the length of the […]

Published
2005

47. Metro Briefing New York: City Teachers Seek More Money

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
United Federation of Teachers -- Labor relations -- Education policy, Teachers -- Compensation and benefits -- Labor relations, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The city teachers' union has increased the amount of a pay raise it is seeking from the Bloomberg administration, to 6 percent a year for three years. Before talks broke […]

Published
2005

48. Test Scores To Be Used To Analyze Schools' Roles

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Education -- Standards, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein will unveil plans today for a more sophisticated analysis of annual standardized test scores that he said will provide a clearer picture of which schools […]

Published
2005

49. Students in Struggling Schools Start Getting Transfer Offers

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Government regulation, Company business planning, New York, New York. City Council. Committee on Education -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Planning -- Education policy -- Laws, regulations and rules, Students, Transfer of -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Planning, Transfer students -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Planning, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The New York City Education Department yesterday began notifying 183,000 children in public schools deemed failing by the state that they have the right to apply for a transfer to […]

Published
2005

50. 4TH GRADERS POST BIG READING GAINS

Author

Herszenhorn, David M.

Subjects
Cities and towns -- Education policy -- Analysis, Academic achievement -- Analysis, Reading -- Standards -- Analysis, Education and state -- Evaluation -- Analysis, Elementary school students -- Standards -- Political activity -- Analysis, Mayors -- Political activity -- Education policy -- Analysis, New York, New York -- Education policy
Abstract

The number of fourth graders reading and writing at grade level in New York State surged this year, propelled by striking gains in four large urban districts, including New York […]

Published
2005

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