Fernanda Santos

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Support Workers' Union Will Sue City Over Layoffs

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Hoping to reverse last month's layoffs of 672 school support workers, the union representing them plans to sue the city. The union, District Council 37, is claiming the layoffs were u...
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Immigrant Aid, Special Ed on Regents Agenda

Monday, November 14, 2011

The state's Board of Regents meets to vote on a measure to help illegal immigrants pay for college. The board will also vote on new rules affecting the delivery of special education s...
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4,177 Students and One Principal: A Day in the Life at Francis Lewis High School

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Principals these days are expected to be a little bit of many different things: manager, educator, financial whiz, social worker, enforcer, data analyst, cheerleader and contortionist...
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Regents Will Press Case for Tuition Aid for Illegal Immigrants

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Calling it a "high priority," the state’s education commissioner, John B. King Jr., on Tuesday discussed two measures to help K-12 students who are illegal immigrants attend college, ...
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Investigation Says Education Director Used His Office for a Political Cause

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The special investigator for the New York City school system said that the Department of Education’s director of public affairs, Lenny Speiller, was wrong to ask parent coordinators, ...
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Heated Debate at Council Hearing Over Layoffs

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Called before the City Council on Tuesday to explain the reasons behind the layoffs of 672 school-support workers, Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott came armed with dates and facts...
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SchoolBook: Physical Education

Monday, October 10, 2011

New York Times education reporter Fernanda Santos talks about the recent audit that showed NYC's public schools to be falling short on required physical education classes. What about your child's school?

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'New Kids,' in a School Created for Them

Friday, October 07, 2011

Through details, like the “nervous, pink flush” that creeps down a teacher’s neck as she reads her (imperfect) college application essay to a room full of students, Brooke Hauser reve...
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Four School Workers, Facing Uncertainty

Friday, October 07, 2011

They are the people who supervise students at arrival and dismissal, who make sure students who need medication take it, who ensure that students with complicated lives at home, or no...
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Success Charter Is Planning a School for Cobble Hill, Brooklyn

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Eva Moskowitz, the former city councilwoman who runs a network of charters in New York City, is gearing up to expand into middle-class enclaves by opening a school in Cobble Hill, Bro...
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Audit Finds Paucity of Gym Classes in City Schools

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

None of a selected group of elementary schools audited by the City Comptroller's Office offered gym classes to students that were in full compliance with state guidelines.

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Education Dept. Rejects Latest Offer to Avert Layoffs

Friday, September 30, 2011

Time is running out on a plan to avert layoffs of hundreds of school employees next week. The latest proposal by the union representing school aides was rejected on Friday by the Department of Education.

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Following Progress Reports, New List of 20 Struggling Schools

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The Department of Education released the list of 20 elementary and middle schools it has tagged as “struggling” following the release of the school progress reports. Identifying the s...
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Bloomberg Strikes Pragmatic Tone in Address About Schools

Monday, September 26, 2011

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the United States secretary of education, Arne Duncan, are on the same page when it comes to providing states with relief from the No Child Left Behind ...
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Walcott's Plan to Strengthen Middle Schools Draws Mixed Reaction

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

In his first major policy address, Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott called for an overhaul of middle schools, citing them as the weak link in the city's system. The initiative drew both fans and critics.

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Squeezing Them All In at P.S. 19 in Corona

Thursday, September 08, 2011

P.S. 19 in Corona, Queens, is one of the most crowded schools in the city. This morning's school opening required military precision, as the school's staff members rushed to get the o...
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City Service

Friday, April 24, 2009

Fernanda Santos, metro reporter and contributor to City Room blog for The New York Times, talks about Mayor Bloomberg's programs to boost volunteerism by New Yorkers young and old.

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NYC Tourism

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

New York Times Metropolitan Reporter Fernanda Santos talks about Mayor Bloomberg's press conference yesterday about New York City tourism.

Question of the Day:
Do you work in the tourism industry and if so, are you feeling the recession yet?

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