By DENNIS M. WALCOTT The New York Post The United Federation of Teachers, the NAACP and other advocacy groups and elected officials announced yesterday that they intend to sue New York City over its plan to close 19 of the city’s lowest performing schools.
By CARL CAMPANILE The New York Post The NAACP today will join a teacher’s union lawsuit to block the city from closing 19 low-performing schools, claiming the action discriminates against minority and special-needs students, sources said.
BY JOHN MOONEY Star-Ledger Staff Seven years after passage of the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, New Jersey is struggling to fulfill one of the federal law’s key promises — providing options for parents whose children attend low-performing schools. Only one in seven eligible students is getting free after-school tutoring called for in the [...]
November 20, 2007 By JENNIFER MEDINA The New York Times After months of negotiation, the City Department of Education capitulated to state education officials on how to spend millions of dollars in new state aid by agreeing to shift more money to reduce class sizes and to spend more on low-performing schools. The money was [...]