A New York minute comes to school.Reform remains the mantra mantra (măn`trə, mŭn–), in Hinduism and Buddhism, mystic words used in ritual and meditation. A mantra is believed to be the sound form of reality, having the power to bring into being the reality it represents. in the second full year of New York City School Chancellor The New York City School Chancellor is the leader of the New York City Department of Education, the agency that handles New York City's public schools. The current School Chancellor is Joel I. Klein. List of New York City School Chancellors
Klein, who acts at the direction of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Mayor Michael Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. , has announced another year's worth of several ambitious undertakings in the country's largest school district. Among them: * A new $36 million teacher mentoring program that trained 300 experienced teachers to assist the estimated 5,000 first-year teachers. * The city opened 91 new schools in September, including 53 small high schools and nine charter schools. Rather than relieving overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. , though, this may exacerbate the problem as existing schools must make room for the new entities in their buildings. * A new accountability system for teachers and administrators will look more at individual student progress instead of overall test results, says DOE deputy press secretary Kelly Devers. These changes follow last year's plan to reorganize the system from 32 locally operated districts into 10 city-run regions; install a parent coordinator in every school; establish a Leadership Academy that produced 66 new principals. Students were directly affected by the end of social promotion for third graders; the reorganization of special education intended to reduce bureaucracy and increase classroom resources; and the standardization of curriculum in English and math across the city. "Instead of picking a cornucopia cornucopia (kôr'ny  kō`pēə), in Greek mythology, magnificent horn that filled itself with whatever meat or drink its owner requested. of issues, they've
chosen two, leadership and literacy," says Arthur Levine, president
of Columbia University's Teacher's College. "If I could
pick any two, those are the two I'd pick. If I were to offer any
criticism it's that they're moving too quickly; but they have
to, they only have four years (before the next mayoral election)."
The glass is also half empty. The system has had to deal with the loss of 240 principals and 28 of 113 local instructional superintendents this year. Making it worse, the New York legislature The New York Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of New York. It is a bicameral legislature, consisting of the lower house New York State Assembly and the upper house New York Senate. The legislature is seated at the New York State Capitol in Albany. produced the latest state budget ever, throwing school-based budget allocations into disarray until late September. Also, high-profile corporate fundraiser Caroline Kennedy This article is about the daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. For the late wife of President Kennedy's son, see Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. resigned her position after about a year on the job. As is often expected in New York City, both the teachers and administrators unions (both working without contracts) don't support many of the changes. "The Department of Education does not work with us at all on anything," says Jill Levy, president of the City's Council of School Supervisors and Administrators. "They have total disrespect for the union and for its contract, and I believe they have total disrespect for the expertise of our members." |
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