Last week the New York Times published an article about parent fundraising in NYC schools where gentrification has taken hold and the tensions over who can or cannot give, who decides how much to ask for and what kind of tension this creates at a school. It’s no surprise to those of us entrenched in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘New York City Public Schools’
PTA Fundraising – Where There’s Money, There’s Tension
Posted in education, tagged DOE, New York, new york city, New York City Public Schools, Parent-Teacher Association, PTA on March 21, 2012 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
No, Mayor Bloomberg You Cannot Count on My Vote
Posted in education, life in nyc, politics, tagged hillary clinton, mayor bloomberg, mike bloomberg, new york city, New York City Public Schools on May 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I received a call from a little old lady who called herself Charlotte. She told me that she was working for Mayor Bloomberg and then rattled off a list of his achievements as Mayor. She prattled on so quickly that I could barely keep track of the bullet pointed campaign platitudes that gushed forth [...]
Admissions of an Admissions Survivor
Posted in nyc moms post, tagged Admissions, identical twins, New York City Private Schools, New York City Public Schools, raising twins, twins on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to think that if Dante wrote The Inferno today there would be a special circle of hell just for Kindergarten admissions in NYC. And within that level there would be a VIP room for those of us with twins. When I explain the process to friends and family living outside of NYC [...]
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