Tag: public schools

Finally (begins) the CDC to see what it means to hide school

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Centers for Disease Control bureaucracy is finally follow science. On Friday, the CDC announced new and less stringent guidance on indoor concealment in much of the United States. The new guidelines address hospitalizations and hospital capacity rather than initial case numbers. Perhaps most importantly, the agency (sort of) did their job together in the schools, saying they shouldn’t be treated any differently than other indoor spaces. Most New York counties have safety at the lowest level of concern according to the new metrics. this is should Forcing Gov. Cathy Hochhol,…

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NYC schools need more opportunity — not ‘redistribution’ based on race

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New Schools Counselor David Banks last week essentially apologized for the new “standards” for admissions to the city’s screened middle and high schools — and rightly so. “When I got here, there were a number of things that were really moving,” Banks said at the Queens meeting. “For now, we have come up with these new admission criteria. We had to make a decision because parents need to make decisions about admissions sooner rather than later,” he said, saying he would re-examine the issue next year. In other words, he…

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Parents notify school board members of the virtue

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Three San Francisco school board members who prioritized signs of virtue and racial equality over opening schools and improving education for all students were called on Tuesday in a landslide vote. While any school board election is by definition a local matter, this vote has been watched and reported nationally. It’s another sign that parents tired of school closures, mask mandates and ideological battles will be a force to be reckoned with at the polls in the upcoming midterm elections. Each member was voted on with more than 70% of…

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Why Asian Americans like me are the new rising patriarchal force

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Chinese people in the United States, especially first- and second-generation immigrants, have historically paid no interest in politics because Chinese culture does not encourage civic engagement. Either we are too busy making money to support our families or we think the games politicians play don’t affect us. To be honest, I was too. But the pandemic has made me realize that decisions made by local elected officials affect our actual lives! During the 18 months of online lessons, my son wasn’t fully involved in school and wasted his time all…

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Department of Education finds $323 million for school budgets amid falling enrollment rates

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The Post has learned that the Department of Education has committed more than a quarter of a billion dollars to cover the massive school budget shortfall linked to the continuing decline in student enrollment. The Department of Education will give the city’s public schools a total of $323 million this year to help them cover basic costs — including teacher salaries, according to a memo issued last week. According to the agency, the massive spending “is allocating funding to schools in order to offset budget declines resulting from the 2021-2022…

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The school banned my ‘Proud Zionist’ T-shirt

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An angry Park Slope teacher says he learned the hard way that it’s OK to wear Black Lives Matter shirts to work at his “Awake” school in Brooklyn — but not the pro-cop or pro-Israel uniform. Jeffrey Levy, an ESL teacher at MS 51 in the liberal Brooklyn area, told The Post that principal Neil Singh had instructed him to stop wearing his “proud Zionist” T-shirt on the premises — despite other employees wearing T-shirts promoting BLM and women’s rights. Levy filed a discrimination complaint for not being allowed to…

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Meet Kieran McArdle, National Lacrosse League star and New York City landmark

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The streets were quiet, when there were no sirens. The stores were empty, if not closed. Schools were bored. The clubs and bars cried. The house was all one owned. That was in March of 2020. You remember. You will never forget. Within three days, Kieran McArdle’s two careers had come to a halt. First, the National Lacrosse League suspended its season. Then PS 48 in Washington Heights closed its doors. The physical education teacher and physical education teacher at the New York Riptide couldn’t tell when either job would…

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COVID-19 causes Boston school closures for 10 days

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A public school in Boston has been closed for 10 days due to the COVID-19 outbreak among dozens of staff and students, officials said. Parents of students at Mary Curley K-8 School in the city’s Jamaica Regular Division learned about the closure of in-person learning in a letter Tuesday. The move was taken on the recommendation of the Boston Public Health Commission in the wake of the recent surge in coronavirus cases across multiple classes and classrooms in the past week, principal Katie Grassa said. “This is an active effort…

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De Blasio admits there is a shortage of vaccines on school sites in New York City

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The de Blasio administration acknowledged Monday that the few schools where COVID-19 vaccines are newly available to students as young as 5 do not have enough doses to keep up with the “unprecedented” number of students seeking them. “We have four locations that are late in getting their supplies, and that is being fixed now,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a news conference held remotely from City Hall. De Blasio noted that 12 public schools in Districts 1 and 2 in Manhattan and District 15 in Brooklyn were Long…

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Letters to the Editor – November 7, 2021

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City school needsThe recent influx of children into New York from our country’s southern border is just another wave of young immigrants storming our sanctuary education system (“New Kids in Class,” October 31). School systems in New York City and Long Island should not be constantly burdened by the federal government’s failure to manage our borders without additional compensation. School systems need more money, supplies and staff in order to adapt effectively. Donathan SalkalnChelsea Consular crisisPresident Biden, in his eagerness to undo whatever former President Donald Trump accomplished, set his…

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