Topic: New York City
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's budget cuts are taking a financial toll on poor schools that is more than three times the hit felt by the wealthiest districts, a non-profit education group said in report on Tuesday.The cuts are costing ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Budget cuts cost New York's poor schools $843 per pupil, over three times the $269 hit taken by the wealthiest districts, a report said on Tuesday, blasting the governor for the unequal results.Like many states, New York uses ...
Evelyn Lauder, who with her husband Leonard helped build the Estee Lauder Companies into a global cosmetics giant, has died at the age of 75, the company announced.The New York firm said Evelyn Lauder, who also helped created the "pink ribbon" symbolizing ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's wealthiest school districts will spend an average of $30,192 per pupil this school year, almost twice the median amount of $16,065 per pupil for the entire state, a new report said on Tuesday.The high-spending school districts ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Educational entrepreneur Chris Whittle, who pioneered charter schools and classroom television, is set to open the first of a network of 20 private schools to groom the next generation of global citizens."Avenues: The World School," will open in a ...
While other officials took heat for their lame response to paralyzing US blizzards, Newark's mayor ingeniously used Twitter and earnt himself political kudos for helping dig out those in need."I need street names and patience," Cory Booker told one worried tweeter as ...
US education secretary to meet with incoming NYC schools chief, pledges supportU.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is in New York City for a meeting with the publishing executive who is poised to take over the city's public school system.Duncan says he will ...
Court hearing nears on release of NYC teacher ratings based on test scoresA lawsuit over whether to release performance ratings for 12,000 New York City schoolteachers based on student test scores is headed to court this week.The city Department of Education says ...
After compromise naming of deputy, media executive is granted waiver to lead NYC schoolsThe New York state education commissioner has granted a waiver to let media executive Cathie Black head New York City's school system.The announcement Monday came after Mayor Michael Bloomberg ...
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