ADMIN January Deadline 2015
CITE and the College of St. Rose are pushing back our deadline for the January ADMIN cohort! The deadline is now January 16th. You have time to get your application in! Find the app here
CSA CONTRACT
Statement from the CSA: While we have been prioritizing our communication to you around issues related to COVID-19 and the transition to remote learning, we would like to inform you that our contract has been formally ratified. The American Arbitration Association has informed CSA that the contract was ratified by 96% of those who sent […]
Retirement Opportunities for Administrators
School Administrators – what are you going to do when you retire? A PhD in education opens a lot of doors for you! Teaching and consulting are just two ways you can earn more money in your retirement, and having your PhD makes that easier! We have three opportunities: 1. a discounted online program with Concordia […]
Teacher Exam Pass Rate Plummets
The teacher exam pass rate plummets. The Daily News reports a 20% decrease in teachers passing the certification exams for the state. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-place-flunkers-article-1.2025482 “While almost no would-be teachers flunked the state’s old certification tests, the pass rates on the four new exams range from 82% down to 68% — meaning thousands of ed-school grads didn’t make […]
Chancellor Fariña vs the Charter Schools
NEWS ROUNDUP! Chancellor Fariña is feeling the heat for some remarks she made recently about how charter schools inflate their test scores by pushing some low-performing students out right before they give the tests. Supporters of charter schools are now calling for proof. Read more: Chalkbeat NY Times Chalkbeat NY Post NY Daily News United […]
UFT Contract Fight Drags On
Wait, didn’t the city and Union come to terms on a new UFT Contract?? They did. Then what’s this fight about? As we outlined here, there are more retirees than expected. According to the Teachers’ Retirement System, there was a 48 percent increase in retirements by UFT members employed by the DOE at the end of […]
How can we help you
SCHOOLS ARE NOT BUSINESSES Our schools are inundated with ideas and practices that are borrowed from business in the name of education reform. These business practices have questionable applicability to schools, and in some cases are just a really poor fit. After all, you don’t want any reject parts if you are a school, you […]
Who Teaches Pre K
Mayor DeBlasio said that NYC is going to hire an additional 8000 teachers to teach Pre-K in the coming years. Who are these teachers? Who teaches Pre K? Where do they come from? How do they get certified? We take a look in this video. Sign up for our Email Newsletter For Email Marketing you […]
