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How Good Is Your Child's Teacher? Evaluations To Be Released Friday
PIX11.com | @jamesfordtvEvaluations of more than 12,000 teachers are set to be released by the Department of Education Friday morning. How well they can help parents and caregivers determine how good their children's education is is open for debate, and there certainly is...Tags: Education, Music, Teaching and Learning, New York City, Teachers
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Supreme Court Bans Displaced Church From Having Services At School
pix11.com | @francescamaximeThanks to a Supreme Court decision Monday, a Bronx church will no longer be able to hold Sunday services in a local school auditorium, while their primary house of worship is being built. PS 15 on Andrews Avenue sits across the street from the edifice...Tags: New York City, Schools, Bronx (New York City), Religion and Belief
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12 Failing NYC Public Schools Slated To Close
PIX11.com / @pix11mikeA dozen city public schools are on the chopping block. They are scheduled to close because the Department of Education says they are failing students. Among the schools slated for closing: the alleged credit fudging "F" rated Jane Adams High school in...Tags: Jane Adams, Science, Education, New York City, Manhattan (New York City)
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Lawmakers On Worship Services In NYC Public School Buildings
PIX11.comNYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Councilman Fernando Cabrera's stopped by to talk about the ban on worship services in NYC public school buildings De Blasio is urging a solution based on other cities who allow it, in the light of Cabrera's arrest...Tags: Schools, Schools
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Public School Sex Ed Classes On French Kissing And Oral Sex?
Staff reporterPorn stars, bestiality, phone sex -- all topics that could very well become part of the Sex Education curriculum next year in New York City high schools and middle schools The Department of Education is recommending students be taught everything there is...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Teaching and Learning, New York City, Curricula, Schools
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Sex Ed: A New NYC School Requirement
PIX11.comNew York City students need an education on sex. That's what a new mandate from the Department of Education says, and even though females and males engage in sexual intercourse, the city's new emphasis on birds-and-bees education focuses more heavily on...Tags: Education, Michael Bloomberg, Teaching and Learning, Curricula, New York City
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Chancellor Brushes Off Contaminated Schools Report
pix11.comThere is nothing a parent would not do to protect his or her child. "My life is his life now," said father Timothy Harrell while standing on the steps of City Hall Wednesday, chanting for change. Harrell's 10-year-old son goes to a New York City...Tags: Education, Manhattan (New York City), New York City, Schools, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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UFT/NAACP To File Suit To Stop Closure Of Schools
PIX11.comKenneth COhen stopped by to talk about why the UFT/NAACP to file suit to stop 22 public school closure challenging the often contentious placement or expansion of 18 charter schools within buildings they share with traditional public schools. Fifteen...Tags: Education, Schools, Charter Schools
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Facebook CEO Donates $100M To Newark Public School System
Associated Press WritersFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday a $100 million donation to Newark public schools. Zuckerberg told talk show host Oprah Winfrey on Friday that he picked Newark for the gift "because I believe in these guys." "These guys" are...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Palo Alto (Santa Clara, California), New Jersey, Education, Teaching and Learning
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NYC Schools Receive Letter Grades On Their Performance
wpix.comOfficials for the New York City public school system released report cards Thursday, awarding each school a letter grade based largely on how well students performed on state math and English exams. This year, 25 percent of schools received A's, 35...Tags: Fort Greene, Belmont, New York, Education, New York City
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NYC Muslims Push For School Holidays
Nearly two hundred Muslim parents, students and supporters rallied on the steps of City Hall, to call on Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Department of Education to include Eid-ul Adha and Eid-ul Fitr in the New York City public school calendar.
PIX 11...Tags: Holidays, New York, Teaching and Learning, Curricula, Yom Kippur
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NYC Public Schools Closed For Snow Day
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says safety was the reason for the rare decision to close New York City's public schools.
Hundreds of schools - from Rochester to the lower Hudson Valley and Long Island - are closed. It was the week's second snow day for many...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Michael Bloomberg, New York, Long Island, Education
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