Anna Phillips

Anna Phillips appears in the following:

Write This Down: Write About Writing Tomorrow

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

On Thursday, the Learning Network is teaming up with the National Writing Project, Figment and Edutopia to encourage everyone to talk and think about writing, submit their writing, an...
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High Teacher Turnover at a Success Network School

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The departure of a popular principal, moves to other schools or districts and unhappiness over what some teachers saw as rigidity in the Success Academy approach has led to an unusual...
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Bronx Charter School and the Teachers Union Sign a Contract

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Bronx Academy of Promise Charter School joins a small group of charter schools that have signed contracts with the United Federation of Teachers to let them represent their teachers and other staff.

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Regents to Vote on Test Security Changes and Dream Act

Monday, October 17, 2011

New York’s Board of Regents begins its two-day monthly meeting on Monday, and they are scheduled to take up two topics that have been in the news of late. The board will vote on wheth...
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On the Upper West Side, an "F" Parents Won't Accept

Friday, October 14, 2011

It seemed to Virgil de Voldere that with each passing year his son attended the P.S. 84 Lillian Weber School, it only became more popular. Families who lived in other districts began ...
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Reports Take Aim at City for Student Busing and Pre-K

Friday, October 14, 2011

It is a day of audits and reports from two elected officials who have been critical of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s education policies, and are both considering a run for mayor: Publi...
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Bullying and Harassment Policies Fall Short, Panel Is Told

Thursday, October 13, 2011

At Wednesday night's Panel for Education Policy meeting in the Bronx, several public health groups praised the city's changes to its sexual harassment and bullying policies, but they ...
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Walcott Names New Chief Fund-Raiser for Schools

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott on Wednesday named Julia Bator as the new director of the nonprofit corporation that collects charitable donations for the city's public schools.

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Zoning Plan Would Add Stability to Pair of Downtown Schools, Principals Say

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The debate over school rezoning in Lower Manhattan drew mostly opponents to a community meeting Tuesday night at P.S. 11 in Chelsea. But principals of two schools that now share a zon...
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Rezoning Plan for District 2 Has Many Parents Unhappy

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The third and final education council zoning committee hearing on the Department of Education's rezoning proposal for District 2 is scheduled for Tuesday night, and parents are expect...
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State to Revise Its List of 'Dangerous Schools'

Monday, October 10, 2011

The state Education Department left 20,000 violent incidents in city schools undocumented -- likely part of the reason that only 9 of the 19 "most dangerous schools" were from New Yor...
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Union Holds a Protest, but Layoffs Take Effect

Friday, October 07, 2011

In spite of a last-minute rally on Friday by District Council 37, the union representing nearly 700 public school employees, by the end of the day the city had decided to lay off mos...
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Who Will Be at Friday's 11th-Hour Layoffs Protest?

Friday, October 07, 2011

A noon rally at City Hall may or may not include other unions that have publicly supported District Council 37. Neither the United Federation of Teachers nor the Council of School Sup...
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A No Vote to a Gay Sports Bar Near P.S. 111

Thursday, October 06, 2011

After a three-hour meeting, the members of Community Board 4 voted to recommend that the State Liquor Authority deny a liquor license to Boxers, a gay sports bar that wants to set up ...
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Labor Joins the Demonstration as School Layoffs Near

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Labor and economic unrest were in the news as the bargaining deadline neared for the city's Department of Education and District Council 37 members, and as layoffs of school aides an...
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City's Chief Operating Officer for Schools Leaving

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

More than a year after being named chief operating officer of the city's schools, Sharon L. Greenberger is stepping down to become the a senior vice president at New York-Presbyterian...
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Harder Times Ahead, as City Plans More Budget Cuts

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

The 2011-12 school year, which has already resulted in painful budget choices by school principals, is likely to get even leaner. Just a few days away from the scheduled layoff of abo...
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Five City Teachers Among Arrested Wall Street Demonstrators

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

City Department of Education officials said five public-school teachers that they know of have been arrested in the Wall Street demonstrations. One of them is David Suker, who teaches...
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Theft of $20,000 in Computer Equipment Stings After First 'A' for School

Monday, October 03, 2011

The police say the theft came over the weekend at the building shared by Central Park East II, recently given a top grade by the city, and P.S. 171 on the Upper East Side.

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More SAT Cheating Suspected on Long Island

Friday, September 30, 2011

While the Nassau County district attorney's office is investigating additional allegations of cheating on the SAT in Long Island schools, school officials and tutors say the Education...
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