The longer this takes, the less opportunity all of us will have to adjust to whatever the state comes up with. Technically, the New York State Board of Regents is responsible for state education policy but we are guessing the Governor's fingerprints will be all over the final policy.
Update: We are also following the negotiations between the City Council and Mayor on a finalized New York City budget due tomorrow. NYPD cuts could be coming, including taking school safety from NYPD and returning it to the DOE.
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Get out of NY before you get hurt, or God forbid, worse. It’s going to get worse there very soon.
De Blasio plans to cut NYPD budget by $1 billion as NYC shootings spike
Leadership...
"Minneapolis City Council members who pressed hard to defund police have now turned around and voted themselves a private security detail that costs taxpayers roughly $4,500 a day. They’ve spent $63,000 so far.
Why cant we in the black community get this spoken about. We want safe streets. I'm afraid to go to work in times like this.
Does the uft or mayor give a shit about this? It is turning into the 1970s. A promising 17-year-old Bronx basketball player had a bright future on the court before he fell victim to the city’s recent spike in shootings, his family said.
Brandon Hendricks, a recent graduate from James Monroe High School, was “the kid you want your daughter to marry,” until he was shot dead at a friend’s barbecue late Sunday, his uncle told The Post.
“It’s appalling that it has spiked like this,” said Noel Ellison, 67. “This was a good kid that got caught in a bad situation.”
“Seventeen-year-old children should not be dying in the manner they have been dying in their own neighborhoods,” Ellison said. “This is a terrible situation.”
I love how they don't think it's safe to open Broadway theaters until January but it's all right to open schools 4 months earlier.
Curriculum from randi. Lol.
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Bullying, low expectations, under-resourced schools, "the talk," AND a lynching in the community: One woman explains why educators must understand what experiences Black students have endured for generations in order to reach them
Six NYC teachers ousted in ‘witch hunt’ over alleged grade-fixing
By Susan EdelmanJune 27, 2020 | 6:30pm
Cobbie Hill High School ousted six of its 34 teachers Friday in a bloodbath staffers called retaliation by Principal Ann Maria Mule over embarrassing leaks involving alleged grade-fixing, The Post has learned.
Several of the teachers who were notified by letter that they had been “placed in excess” previously filed Equal Employment Opportunity and retaliation complaints against Mule.
Some of the booted staffers have also reported alleged grade fraud to the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, saying they were pressured to pass students who did not meet requirements.
“This is clearly retaliation for staffers who stood up against the principal,” one of the removed teachers said. “And it’s sending a warning to the remaining teachers that they’re in danger if they challenge the principal in any way.”
The six teachers — including two Latinos, one Asian and one African-American — received the same letter stating, “I regret to inform you that you have been placed in excess from our school for next year.”
The letter, signed by Acting Principal Costas Constantinidis, instructs the teachers to start looking for jobs elsewhere in the DOE.
Excessed teachers with tenure remain DOE employees. If they are not re-hired by other schools or programs, they go into the Absent Teacher Reserve, a pool of substitutes without permanent jobs.
Mule, the longtime Cobble Hill principal, took a one-year position as a “new principal coach,” but is set to return in July. Staffers say she has kept in touch with school administrators.
“Mule has been on a witch hunt ever since the audio was leaked,” another teacher said, referring to secret recordings of a virtual staff meeting in which Constantinidis said too many students were failing remote classes.
“If a child is engaged, if the child is doing work, but somehow the child doesn’t get it, gives you the wrong answer, but the child is doing something, checking in with you, doing work … I would have passed the child,” Constantinidis said in the meeting.
After The Post aired the audio, Cobble Hill administrators called in faculty members one at a time to quiz them about the leak.
Mayor de Blasio and teachers’ union president Michael Mulgrew have warned that teachers would be excessed due to looming school budget cuts, but none had been announced so far.
DOE officials denied any retaliation by Mule or other Cobble Hill administrators, adding that “no final excessing decisions have been made yet.”
“Those notified of potential excessing are not necessarily officially excessed until school starts in September,” said spokeswoman Danielle Filson.
The one percenters want chaos. They are funding BLM, not because the believe BLM , but because they want to divide and conquer. Want protection? Defund the cops. Needs a gun? No way, Jose - we don’t want you standing up for your rights. Want to pray for a better day.? Churches are a no, no. Teach logic and love, not hate? Close all schools immediately. Angry populace? Hand out all the weed, booze and heroin they want. People want to get sober? Close all meetings. They will quarantine us again. We are looking at fascism, via a manufactured emergency. Trump is their puppet and he’s too stupid to see it.
March: Teachers are amazing! They should be paid a million dollars.
June: We need schools to re-open! We need childcare! Teachers might just have to die.
For those excessed, get ready to be treated like a pariah.
@5:19pm: Why can't it be spoken of in the black community? I don't even know why the h@// DeBlasio is doing this sh^t. Everyone I know believe this bull about defunding the police is an agenda, a red herring of which a majority of black folk do not approve. Who will suffer? Who are those folks laid out in front of City Hall? Why are they only willing to camp out in Manhattan? There are 4 other boroughs. Im with you @5:19pm we want safe streets. The pendulum swings widely from left to right. Where is the middle. Frigging ridiculous. Stay safe.
Junk the entire curriculum and create a new one that is honest and true. Just tell the facts about US and Global history.
CDC says U.S. has ‘way too much virus’ to control pandemic as cases surge across country
Leave NY if you want to be safe. Corona is no where near the greatest killer (of both life and quality of life) residents are facing.
But please don't bring your leftist policies that created this dystopia with you to wherever you go.
NY will get way worse before/if it ever gets better.
Mob rules Gotham now.
We NYC residents, especially homeowners, have way bigger problems than this pandemic and returning to school in September. The liberal paradise voters have asked for here, aka chaos and violence and misery, is happening before your eyes. The Narrative has determined that law-abiding people need to be subservient to the mob.
This is what the majority of NYC and state voters wanted. Now they got it. Sorry that decent people have to suffer.
Left NYC 6 years ago. No regrets. No lawlessness here. Peaceful protest in my town. Very little crime. Many legal gun owners yet no shootings. Schools are safe. Get out of NYC. There are civilized communities to live in outside of NYC. There is such a demand that a NYC realtor called and asked if I wanted to sell my suburban home. PBA is right. Nyc politicians have surrendered the city to lawlessness.
I also left NYC, but still miss it a lot. People are polite-will hold the door for you, no line at the DMV, I can park almost anywhere, and bought a house-which I could never have done in NYC. But I miss my doctors, walking almost everywhere. There's also culture shock-I'm seen as a little high strung-but really I'm just a native NY Cityer! Also, it's very political to get a school job outside of the city. You can always try to get a job with the state, but it's less money and of course a smaller pension.
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