Topic: Dennis Walcott

Parents’ principal protest

In a rare move, dozens of parents and teachers took their complaints about a Queens principal to the streets yesterday after their elementary...
New York City teenagers attending small public high schools with about 100 students per grade were more likely to graduate than their counterparts...

Up Close for January 22, 2012

Last week on this show, we heard from Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson. They vented their frustrations with the...

The Twitterverse Speaks; AM Cathy Nolan Listens

Score one for the Twitterverse! Our Glenn Blain reports: State Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan didn't see the need to grill city Schools Chancellor...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day events

In MLK'S Footsteps: Education as a Civil Right The fight for equal schooling provides the theme for WNYC's annual commemoration of Dr. Martin ...

Walcott: City must step up, fix schools

City schools must do more to prepare kids for college, Chancellor Dennis Walcott acknowledged Friday, on the defensive over a Daily News story...

School boss disrupted by OWS protesters

A couple of of hundred Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupted a city Education Department meeting Tuesday night and drowned out the schools...

New York City schools to make sex education mandatory

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City public schools will teach mandatory sex education classes to all middle- and high school students, part of a citywide initiative to help reduce teenage pregnancies, officials said on Wednesday.The required classes, the first mandated sex ...

Events for Thursday, November 6, 2008

Hispanic business leaders in Queens urge people to urge the City Council to vote in favor of Willets Point redevelopment. Anthony Weiner the discusses election with Forest Hills High School students, 67-01 110th Street. Jeff Mardrick, author of The Case for Big ...
A 20-page lawsuit filed yesterday by former Khalil Gibran International Academy principal Debbie Almontaser says Michael Bloomberg and school officials forced her to resign last August.According to the lawsuit, it all started during a telephone interview with a New York Post ...