Anna Phillips appears in the following:
Truant Students Are Heeding Their Wake-Up Calls
Thursday, November 10, 2011
In reviewing the results of the first year of its anti-truancy campaign, the city has found that chronically absent students who had attendance mentors fared better than those who did...
City Plans to Move a School and Start a New One in East New York
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
The city's Education Department is planning to open two secondary schools next September in East New York, Brooklyn, one of the poorest and lowest performing neighborhoods in the city.
A Long-Serving Principal in Brooklyn Tells All
Monday, November 07, 2011
Monday's education news includes a story about a Brooklyn junior high school principal who has been leading her school for nearly 49 years, which may be the longest tenure of any prin...
A Crown Heights School's Fall From Grace
Friday, November 04, 2011
P.S. 161 The Crown went from being top of the heap in test scores a few years ago, to one of the lowest scoring schools in Brooklyn's District 17. The school's admissions policies, fo...
Mount Vernon District Fights a Charter School's Arrival
Friday, November 04, 2011
In New York City, the public has grown accustomed to fights over charter schools and whether to open more of them. Typically, the opposition comes from parents, teachers and members o...
Long Island City High School Wants Elective Courses Before and After School
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Three months into the school year, students at Long Island City High School face more scheduling changes, this time, elective classes before and after regular school hours.
City's Struggling Schools List Grows to 47
Thursday, November 03, 2011
The list of schools the city could begin closing next year swelled to 47 after the City Department of Education added high schools, charter schools and more middle schools to the list.
Principals and City Reach Impasse in Bargaining
Thursday, November 03, 2011
The state's labor relations board formally declared that the City Department of Education and the Council for School Supervisors and Administrators had made no progress in their contr...
21 High Schools Identified as 'Struggling'
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
After the release of high school progress reports last week, city Education Department officials identified 21 struggling high schools that, because of their low performance, could be...
Cuomo Dangles Money for District Performance and Ideas
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
School districts across New York State could win as much as $75 million in grant money if they can prove to state education officials that they have been able to raise performance and...
City Reports More Suspensions, but Serious Crimes Declined
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
New figures on crime and suspensions in the city's schools show suspensions are up while serious episodes have declined. They also show that most suspensions, 87 percent, were given t...
More Seats for Lower Manhattan, But Not Right Away
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Nearly 200 seats will be added to an elementary school planned for Lower Manhattan, city Education Department officials announced on Tuesday, but that additional space in a neighborho...
Students and Teachers Are Furious Over High School Scheduling Mess
Friday, October 28, 2011
Administrators met with parents and teachers at Long Island City High School on Friday to try to address frustrations over a problem that left many students with entirely new schedule...
Walcott Pledges Measures to Increase Parents' Involvement
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott announced plans to increase parents' involvement in their children's schooling, a topic he has made a priority and is in keeping with his agenda of improv...
Walcott Event Disrupted by Protesters
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott's planned event to promote Parents as Partners week, and to discuss the new core curriculum standards, was disrupted Tuesday night when he could not be he...
At Most High Schools, Fewer Than Half of Graduates Are Ready for College
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
In 299 of the city high schools that received progress reports this week, the college readiness rate was less than half the graduation rate, according to the city's analysis. Here's a...
A Mobile Game Puts New York City Teachers in Hero's Tights
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Faster than a student sprinting to class. Able to leap tall budget hurdles in a single bound. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a city teacher superhero! Available at a mobile device near you.
Three of Four Students Not Prepared for College, City Says
Monday, October 24, 2011
Concerns that higher graduation rates in city schools did not reflect college preparedness were born out in the city's own analysis of high schools, with a finding that most graduates...
Transformation Schools Show Mixed Results on Progress Reports
Monday, October 24, 2011
Anyone looking for a clear verdict on the performance of 11 city high schools that began receiving federal grant money last year will be disappointed by the release of progress report...
City Reports Shine a Light on Charters
Friday, October 21, 2011
About 30 Department of Education reports on the city's charter schools for the 2010-11 school year include lists of the most mundane of details and education jargon, as well as the ki...