New Teacher Contract 2018
Chalkbeat is reporting details on a new contract deal for NYC Teachers here: https://ny.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/10/12/new-york-city-teacher-salary-scale-2019-2022/ From Chalkbeat: The 2019-2022 contract, announced four months before the current one is due to expire, includes annual raises of 2, 2.5, and 3 percent. Teachers have criticized the increases as insufficient to keep up with rising living costs. The Chalkbeat article […]
Bilingual Expansion in NYC Schools
The always excellent Chalkbeat has an article out about the mayor and chancellor’s bilingual initiative. The article talks about the expansion to better serve students who are learning English, and highlights the fact that there is a real need to qualified teachers in these areas. CITE is proud to offer both a TESOL Master’s Degree […]
Can Emotional Intelligence count towards Graduation?
There’s a debate about a move towards an alternative to the full regents requirement to graduate high school. This movement substitutes a work readiness credential in place of one, but only one, of the five regents a student is required to pass to get a HS diploma. The credential can be satisfied by a multiple […]
Dual Language Program Expansion
In the beginning of 2015, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced this new citywide initiative expanding Dual Language programs across the city. The 40 dual language programs together will receive $1 million in federal funds from Title III Language Instruction for Limited Proficient and Immigrant Students (LEP). Each school will receive a $25,000 planning grant to implement its […]
NYC Teacher Shortage Looms
The media is starting to understand that there will be a teacher shortage, given how the current group of teachers skews older, enrollments in teacher training programs are declining precipitously, and people interested in teaching are turned off by the extent of testing. This article from Politico NY posits that it’s time to take a look […]
Economic Disparity in NYC Schools
How are NYC schools divided along economic lines? And how do those divisions affect the quality of instruction in schools? A new post on Chalkbeat takes a look at 2 schools, 9 city blocks apart, that occupy either end of the economic (and therefore, resources, test scores, etc.) spectrum. A new plan could, in fact, help […]
Renewal Schools Update
The city actually released its goals for renewal schools and put them on their websites. It still doesn’t call for the elementary and middle schools to average a passing grade on the math or language arts exams, but at least they are somewhat clear. Here’s the link to the Chalkbeat article. http://ny.chalkbeat.org/2015/12/08/after-criticism-city-publishes-renewal-goals-arguing-they-top-state-targets/#.VmbuDriDGkp Here’s a […]
Renewal Schools
RENEWAL SCHOOL GOALS This is a good news/bad news story. The great news is that the Board of Ed gave each Renewal School a one page document with goals for attendance and other academic measures last May. If these goals are what we call SMART goals, that’s great. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results […]
