Anna Phillips appears in the following:
Teachers' Union Uninvited City From Joint Training Sessions
Friday, January 20, 2012
"You're not invited anymore," were union president Michael Mulgrew's words on his decision to uninvite city education officials from joint evaluation training sessions for teachers an...
City Says It Will Focus on College Readiness
Thursday, January 19, 2012
In a joint hearing of the higher education and K-12 education committees, City Council members asked Department of Education officials how it was possible to assign meaning to an incr...
Teachers Urged to Attend Panel Meeting
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
In a robo-call placed to teachers on Tuesday night, their union's president, Michael Mulgrew, urged them to attend the monthly meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy at Brooklyn ...
In Williamsburg, a Charter School Divides North From South
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Community organizations and church groups packed a Williamsburg, Brooklyn, middle school on Tuesday night to protest the planned arrival of a Success Academy charter school, which the...
Cuomo's Budget Targets Evaluations, Busing and Special Ed
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
UPDATED | Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's executive budget has quite a bit to say about education in New York. Along with a four percent spending increase -- contingent on school districts ado...
Lobbyist for Students? New Yorkers Have Their Doubts
Monday, January 16, 2012
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is at his peak of popularity, but only a slim majority of voters in New York believe that he will fulfill his declaration to be a lobbyist for students, a new po...
Teachers Union Calls for Renewed Contract Negotiations
Friday, January 13, 2012
A day after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said he would circumvent the teachers union to create his own teacher evaluation process, the union is trying to force the city back to the negotiation table.
Morris Campus Students Welcome the Mayor
Thursday, January 12, 2012
As rain and wind battered the Morris high school campus on Thursday morning, students said they were excited to have a prominent guest in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has chosen th...
City and State Move to Shut Down Brooklyn Charter Network
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Three charter schools in Williamsburg, operated by the Believe Network, are slated to be closed after suffering management and financial woes for years. Shutting them down could affec...
City Seeks to Close Two Charter Schools
Monday, January 09, 2012
New York City's Department of Education announced plans on Monday to close two long-troubled charter schools in Brooklyn and Queens at the end of this school year: Williamsburg Charte...
City Warns Struggling Schools Against Spending
Friday, January 06, 2012
Three days ago Education Department officials told principals at the city's struggling schools to proceed as usual, despite the state's suspension of nearly $60 million in federal gra...
Rally Against Bronx Science Principal, This Time By Students and Alumni
Thursday, January 05, 2012
About two dozen current students and recent alumni gathered on the field across from the entrance to the Bronx High School of Science to protest the school's high rate of teacher turn...
Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's Award
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige wrote a letter on behalf of herself and her actor son, Matt Damon, to the National Education Association, saying she no longer would accept the union's Friend...
Cuomo Calls for Education Commission, But Is Vague on Details
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
In a speech that only touched on educational matters -- and when it did was very short on details -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did not say whom he would appoint to a new bipartisan educati...
City Tells Struggling Schools to Carry On While Funds Are in Flux
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Now that the state has suspended payments for improvements to the city's struggling schools, principals are wondering: What happens to the SmartBoards, teachers and programs they have...
Charters Don't Have to Pay Rent, for Now
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
A state Supreme Court judge has rejected a request by parents and advocacy organizations for an immediate order to require New York City to charge charter schools rent for the space t...
Training Program for Math Teachers Will Shift Its Focus
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
The Math for America program, which attracts and trains math teachers, is shifting its focus away from new recruits to teachers who are already in the classroom, and plans to more tha...
City Rejects Pleas to Expedite New School in Murray Hill
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
UPDATED | One of the many overcrowding battles in Manhattan came to an unhappy conclusion for a group of Murray Hill parents after city officials rejected their proposals to open a new school a year ahead of schedule.
Students and Staff Say Washington Irving Was Set Up to Fail
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
UPDATED | In what has become a common refrain in the closing schools debate, students, teachers and parents at Washington Irving High in Manhattan blamed the city for sending them som...
Council Mandates City Alerts on PCB Dangers
Monday, December 19, 2011
The City Council on Monday approved a new law that requires the Department of Education to give parents and school staff regular updates on the status of PCB light fixtures and the city's actions to replace them.