It’s the annual song of the last day of school right? Only this time it’s not about summer it’s about the budget! Yesterday we were informed by our NYC Schools budget liaison that paper is not a necessity in the classroom. He didn’t really mean that of course but he couldn’t say what the DOE [...]
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No More Paper! No More Books! No More Teachers…
Posted in education, kids, politics, society, tagged budget cuts, Common Core Standards, Common Core State Standards Initiative, Education, Educators, nyc public schools on June 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Parental Involvement in Schools – How Thomas Friedman Missed the Point
Posted in education, family, life in nyc, parenting, politics, rant, society, tagged budget cuts, Education, education reform, family, new york times, nyc public schools, parental involvement, PTA, public school, Thomas Friedman on November 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »
This past week Thomas Friedman wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times, U.S.G and P.T.A, about parental involvement making a difference in student achievement. When I first read the article I yawned. Tell me something I don’t know. Kids do better when parents are involved? Of course. Kids do better when parents lay down [...]
The Recession’s Front Line: Our Schools
Posted in education, kids, life in nyc, nyc moms post, politics, tagged budget cuts, DOE, Education, joel klein, katie couric, kindergarten, mayor bloomberg, New York City Public Schools, new york magazine, nyc, nycmomsblog, parenting, politics, stimulus on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The day after our SVmoms conference call with Katie Couric about Children of the Recession, the NYC Department of Education (DOE) announced system wide cuts to the New York City public schools. The official amount was 5%, but at my daughters’ school it was about 15%. This is on top of the fact that our [...]
Live Blogging My Call With Katie Couric
Posted in life in nyc, politics, tagged budget cuts, cbs news, katie couric, KatieCouricSVMomsGroup, New York City Private Schools, public school, raising kids, recession on May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I am on a conference call with Katie Couric, discussing kids and the recession: Children of the Recession. So far introductions all around. CBS News is concentrating on how the recession is impacting children. 6:30pm Evening News, and the Early Show. Go to cbsnews.com to view all of these insightful and important stories launching this [...]
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