A lot of NYC schools have given up DEAR/classroom libraries/ever reading more than a few pages of a text because of switching to Into Reading. Awful.

Here’s what I want for teacher appreciation week. An end to standardized tests and the $1.7 billion spent each year on these tests redirected into classrooms.

how tragic, if true

Meanwhile they’re still cutting the budget for new schools by $2B and planning to spend only $4B - despite the need for more space to lower class size - with not a single new school specified for the Bronx cc John C. Liu

Time and time again, student protests have led to crucial societal change.

Check out these four movements when student protesters were on the right side of history.

The Governor of New York.

BREAKING: Israel’s criminal invasion of Rafah, the last place of refuge for Palestinians in Gaza, has begun.

1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah are now being attacked through air, land and sea, in the middle of the night.

Governor Hochul’s remarks regarding young black children in The Bronx were harmful, deeply misinformed, and genuinely appalling.

Full statement:

We can not and should not look away from the horrors in Gaza.

New on the podcast: The brilliant Nawal Qarooni [Nawal Qarooni | NQC Literacy | @nqarooni on IG] shares some ways to build a truly collaborative relationship with families by elevating the natural learning that happens at home.
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To be honest, several teachers and paras have been fired and/or have resigned because they have been targeted... We have lost a lot of talent in the last couple of months.

We all need to step up to protect our teachers! UFT

I’ve consulted in the same schools for 8 years. All of them were required to teach HMH this year and the results on teachers and students shows a sharp decline in reading interest, reading independence, and reading volume. And don’t even get me started on the writing curriculum!

One more school day until the NYS Math test. I can't wait to get back to real teaching

the reveals are as entertaining as the voting itself