tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post2179483847324128468..comments2024-02-19T05:18:27.849-05:00Comments on <center>the Q at Parkside</center>: The Q's School Tool: Part 7: More On LGCSClarkson FlatBedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-64209214638969351222014-01-03T14:48:36.799-05:002014-01-03T14:48:36.799-05:00The Daily News softens the arrival of the charter-...The Daily News softens the arrival of the charter-school killer:<br /><br /><i>New Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to focus on middle schools in first year<br />On her first full day on the job, the new city schools boss said she'll spend her first year in office focusing on the city's struggling middle schools. Fariña spent Day 1 having 'many conversations' with officials at the Department of Education's headquarters and visiting MS 223 in the South Bronx.<br /><br />Comments (6)<br />BY BEN CHAPMAN AND RACHEL MONAHAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<br /><br />FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014,<br /><br />In her first full day on the job, new city schools boss Carmen Fariña announced she’ll focus on the city’s struggling middle schools during her first year in office.<br /><br />“I really believe if we get middle schools right, the rest is going to be a piece of cake,” the chancellor said Thursday in her first school visit — to Middle School 223 in the Bronx.<br /><br />The Bloomberg administration tried for years to improve performance at middle schools, where many students fall behind, leaving them at a disadvantage when they face more challenging high school courses.<br /><br />RELATED: DE BLASIO AND FARINA SHOULD CALL A SCHOOL REFORM TRUCE<br /><br />Fariña, a veteran educator and former developer of middle-school curriculum, declined to evaluate the previous administration’s efforts to target grades six through eight, but said there’s good reason to emphasize middle schools.<br /><br /><br />HOWARD SIMMONS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS<br /><br />Fariña (second from left) announced that she will focus on struggling middle schools during her first year in office. Here, she tours MS 223 on Thursday. The Bronx middle school is considered a success.<br /><br />“I think we’ve made a dent in terms of the high school graduation rates,” she said, adding that focusing on improvements starting in the ninth grade is too late. “We know by the seventh grade who’s going to graduate in the 12th grade.”<br /><br />Fariña offered few details about what she is planning to do, but said she intends to appoint talented principals, spread approaches used at the best middle schools and cater to students’ needs to a greater degree.</i><br /><br /><br /><br />Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-schools-chancellor-fari-focus-middle-schools-article-1.1565140#ixzz2pMmc3lwJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-78889441484110893872014-01-03T11:33:01.602-05:002014-01-03T11:33:01.602-05:00Evasions from the new schools chancellor have begu...Evasions from the new schools chancellor have begun:<br /><br /><i>New schools boss declines to take stand on charters<br /><br />By Georgett Roberts January 3, 2014 NY Post<br /><br />Carmen Fariña on Thursday visited her first school as Mayor de Blasio’s chancellor, and dodged questions about how she would carry out his promised policy to restrict charter schools.<br /><br />Asked if she was for or against charters, Fariña said, “I think for or against is very strong — so stay tuned and we will have a protocol on that.”<br /><br />She said changes are coming at the Department of Education but “at this moment, there have been no decisions made about any personnel issues.”</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-17065251551059587082014-01-02T22:52:51.224-05:002014-01-02T22:52:51.224-05:00Bob Marvin writes:
It's amazing how much the ...Bob Marvin writes:<br /><br /><i>It's amazing how much the previous poster knows about the new administration's education policy on DAY ONE!</i><br /><br />de Blasio's stand in charter schools, the gifted program and closing failing schools are all points he's made publicly.<br /><br />Meanwhile, as a parent of kids in the school system, I became aware of Carmen Farina's views. She was the head of district 15 in the 1990s. She had her sights on the gifted program, claiming that it was some kind of elitist concoction that excluded minority kids, even though the true minority kids in NY City are asian and, as a group, they're the top performers.<br /><br />As you well understand, a mayor does not appoint a school chancellor with views that differ from his own, so you know that Farina was called out of retirement because she so closely embraced de Blasio's ideological vision, a vision that is so out of step that no employed big-city school chancellor was willing to take a shot at running the biggest school system of them all.<br /><br />Bloomberg made one bad choice in all his appointments. He named Cathie Black as school chancellor. However, it didn't take him long to realize his mistake and replace her with Dennis Walcott, who should have been reappointed. <br /><br />She's way too old for this job, and may well show how unprepared she truly is when she finds herself addressing an auditorium of parents who angrily demand charter schools.<br /><br />Even though the appointment of Farina is a huge mistake, de Blasio is going to stand by her for a long long while, insisting that it takes a lot of time and effort to make changes in the school system. <br /><br />During all that time, failed schools will remain open, charter schools will close and the gifted program will suffer from dilution as standards for acceptance are lowered.<br /><br />It won't be the more affluent people who lose. The losers will be middle class and lower middle class kids who can't escape the municipal bureaucratic monopoly of the nearly omnipotent DOE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-27690151767129693832014-01-02T19:56:36.369-05:002014-01-02T19:56:36.369-05:00"the de Blasio/Farina anti-charter, anti-gift..."the de Blasio/Farina anti-charter, anti-gifted, anti-closing-failed schools"<br /><br />It's amazing how much the previous poster knows about the new administration's education policy on DAY ONE!Bob Marvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12734112800580467028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-41936330168112185172014-01-02T18:18:19.249-05:002014-01-02T18:18:19.249-05:00clarkson writes:
LGCS shares space with PS92 on P...clarkson writes:<br /><br /><i>LGCS shares space with PS92 on Parkside, the building that's the most obvious candidate to bear the name "Lefferts Gardens." While much has been written about Charter vs DOE schools...the fact of the matter is that local parents DO have a fair number of options available, and LGCS is one of them.</i><br /><br />Now that de Blasio, the night-mayor, has been inaugurated, that sad moment for charter schools has arrived. He and his back-from-retirement hack, the newly appointed Schools Chancellor, known as the nemesis of charter schools, Carmen Farina, will stop charters cold with new rent rules for charters sharing space with DOE schools.<br /><br />Who knows what rationale is in play here? When a charter is given space in a DOE building, why in the world does the presence of a school performing the same tasks as a DOE school find itself subjected to arbitrary rent expenses?<br /><br />It's not as though the excess space in a DOE school building might otherwise be rented to Walgreens or Chase Bank.<br /><br />What does the de Blasio/Farina anti-charter, anti-gifted, anti-closing-failed schools mean? Nothing good for anyone, especially the kids.<br /><br />It was amusing and puzzling to hear night-mayor de Blasio assert that parents would have more involvement in schools. <br /><br />What the heck does that mean? Will they establish the curriculum? Standards for discipline? Homework? Paychecks for teachers? Grading standards? <br /><br />Why does he think parents are excluded from public school involvement now? Every school is wide open to parents when it comes to parent/teacher conferences. Teachers are reachable. Homework can be followed by logging on to the monitoring programs at many schools. The NSA has nothing on DOE schools that provide total access to homework records to parents.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com