Chaz's School Daze

I was e-mailed this very cute comparison between the public schools in 1957 and what they are like now. I hope you enjoy it as much as I di...

It is unreal how many times the UFT makes a deal with the DOE only to be "shocked" when the DOE reneges on the agreement. Of co...

In the news lately has been the placement of a Bill Gates 6-12 school in part of Jamaica High School for the 2008-2009 school year. Once th...

This is another article about the damage that the 2005 contract has on the classroom teacher and their consequences to the New York City Tea...

Over the last few years the four year graduation rate has inched up from 43% to close to 50%. However, how valid is the 50% graduation rate...

Educational bloggers and commenters are always trying to brand me with a political label. My friend, nyc educator thinks I am a right wi...

We all know that the DOE must reduce it's budget next year by 324 million dollars. That is a significant cut in the education budget an...

Randi Weingarten , in a New York Times puff piece was proud to point out how she wanted incremental and sustainable changes in the New York ...

I accuse the UFT of not protecting teacher rights. The retreat by this union under Randi Weingarten and her friends has made teaching in...

We all know how terrible the October 2005 contract was to the classroom teacher. However, from my point of view the worst part of the 2005 ...

The day before "Holy Thursday" the DOE instructed principals that they can deny Religious Observance (RO) days to teachers who wa...

There is little question that more and more teachers are being removed from their classrooms (315 in 2003 to 757 in 2007) and many of them ...

The Kleinberg administration has rammed through a vote that stops the social promotion of 8 th graders. While I usually disagree with the...

The micromanagement by the DOE just continues. Now those wonderful non-educators have told PS 193 in Whitestone Queens that their twenty y...

In the New York Daily News today was an article that talked about how the DOE will cut their budget by 5% for the 2008-09 school year. A...

A little noticed event happened a while ago when four Brooklyn teachers received disciplinary letters in their files (LIF) for not reporting...

During the Kleinberg years it has been increasingly obvious that despite their emphasis on test preparation at the expense of a full educa...

I read an article in my local section of Newsday about how little today's children play with each other and it reminded me of my pretee...

New York City politicians are always calling us the best and the brightest. However, the real truth is the Kleinberg administration is alw...

There is a discussion going on in District 75 that the DOE wants to reduce it's size or even eliminate it. For the few people who don...