Anna Phillips

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Fewer Students Repeat a Grade This Year

Friday, December 16, 2011

A third of New York City elementary and middle school students who failed state exams last spring did not move on to the next grade this school year, a decrease from the year before, when nearly half were held back.

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Charter School Leaders Hunt for Their Mayoral Candidate

Friday, December 16, 2011

Two years away from the race for New York City's next mayor, members of the charter school world are beginning to search for a candidate they can call their own. At a fund-raising eve...
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City Says Few Jane Addams Seniors Lack Credits

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

After a week of reviewing students' records at a troubled South Bronx high school, Department of Education officials said that most of the school's 200 seniors were on track to gradua...
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Out-of-School Time Program Faces Deep Cuts

Monday, December 12, 2011

An after-school program started under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in 2005 is facing a budget cut of more than 20 percent, which some people say could cut nearly in half the number of s...
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25 Schools Could Be Closed or Truncated

Friday, December 09, 2011

In the second part of a two-day announcement, city education officials added 10 schools to the list of schools it will close, phase out over a period of several years or truncate in t...
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12 Schools Named for Closing

Thursday, December 08, 2011

The Department of Education released the names of 12 schools it is proposing to phase out, and identified three from which it wants to remove some of the grades.

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City Targets Jane Addams High for Closing

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Staff members at Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers, a large high school in the South Bronx near Yankee Stadium, received news that the Department of Education planned to ph...
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School Closing Announcements Start Thursday

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

UPDATED | Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott announced Wednesday at a District 2 Town Hall meeting that the Education Department will reveal within the next two days which of the ci...
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Jane Addams H.S. Students Fear They Lack Credits to Graduate

Thursday, December 01, 2011

The chances that a student at the Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers would cross the finish line to graduation in four years were already poor, but seniors said they have no...
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New York State's Testing Director Resigns

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The director of New York State's testing program resigns on the same day state officials drop a plan to extend the length of reading tests given to students in grades three through eight, which principals had opposed.

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Investigator Finds Violations at Shuang Wen School

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

A high-achieving school in Chinatown, which has been riven by charges of mismanagement and admissions violations, is cleared by the Special Commissioner of Investigation on charges of...
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Crowding Concerns Raised Over Cobble Hill Charter School

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

A hearing on the city's plan to open a charter school in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, lasted nearly five hours, as parents and teachers argued over whether the charter would be a boon for t...
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City Abandons Rezoning Plans for Village and Chelsea

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

UPDATED | City officials have dropped their plans to rezone crowded public elementary schools in Greenwich Village and Chelsea after a parent council voted down their most recent plan...
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Police Release Quarterly Report on School Arrests

Monday, November 28, 2011

Complying with a new city law, the New York Police Department released a quarterly report on school arrests and summonses, which showed that nearly half of the 63 students who were ar...
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School Bus Drivers Seek to Reopen Contracts

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The president of the city's largest union for school bus drivers announced that he would reopen contract negotiations for general and special education student transportation, indicat...
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Competition for Cobble Hill School Site

Thursday, November 17, 2011

As the Department of Education moves to bring a charter school to Brooklyn's Cobble Hill neighborhood, a state assemblywoman and a former city schools official are backing a different...
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District 2 Council Rejects Two Rezoning Plans

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

In a surprise move, a parent council representing much of Lower Manhattan and the Upper East Side unanimously rejected two city proposals to rezone public schools.

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Class Sizes Grew Again, New City Figures Show

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Another year of cuts to schools' budgets has brought with it an anticipated rise in class sizes across the city, with elementary schools seeing the biggest increase, according to city...
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State Names Lawyer to Investigate Cheating

Monday, November 14, 2011

Henry M. Greenberg, a former assistant United States attorney and senior legal adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo when he was attorney general, will review how the state's Education Depa...
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Federal Dollars Pledged to Math and Science Programs

Friday, November 11, 2011

Three programs that promote math and science education will receive a big lift in the form of millions of dollars in federal grants. Now New Visions for Public Schools, the city's Edu...
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