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Six ex-NYC DOE staffers used “forged permission slips” to take their own kids and grandkids on city-funded trips meant for homeless students, including a $66,000 excursion to Disney World in 2018, @NYC_SCI says in a just-released report.
A supervisor is accused of trying to cover it up.
“She told us to lie to the investigators,” a co-worker confirmed.
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NEW: The NYC teachers union will endorse @ZohranKMamdani
EXCLU w/ @ccampy: The Big Apple’s powerful teachers union are expected to announce their endorsement of mayoral Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani — after its members passed on making a pic in the primary, The Post has learned.
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New: Mayor Adams' girlfriend who was promoted by DOE chancellor David Banks is now the subject of multiple ethics complaints for luxury trips and accused of having a $221K "no-show job."
w/@deirdre_bardolf
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Gotta love the gumption of the mom who snuck into @NYCMayor 's press conference today and posed as a reporter to ask when he would keep a tentative promise to "unmask our toddlers."
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NEW: NYPD denies $10K reward for three teens whose quick-acting call led cops to bust the man who set a woman on fire in the subway.
Why? They phoned 911 instead of the Crime Stoppers tipline.
“It's such B.S.," a father told Katherine Donlevy.
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NEW: A Jewish teacher at Hillcrest HS in Queens was forced to hide in a locked office while hundreds of students rampaged through the halls calling for her ouster.
"I was shaken to my core by the calls to violence against me," she said.
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New: NYC Chancellor David Banks has promoted Mayor Adams' girlfriend to a top DOE post. Six months ago, Adams hired Banks' girlfriend as a deputy mayor.
"I'm sleeping with the wrong man," a teacher quipped.
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That's some photo-op! Gov. Andrew Cuomo helps clean NYC subways during tour of MTA facility, via @sara_dorn nypost.com/2020/05/02/gov-an… via @nypmetro
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Bombshell decision: A judge has struck down NYC's vaccine mandate for NYPD officers, and ordered those "wrongfully terminated" for non-compliance to be reinstated, @NYCPBA president Pat Lynch has told members:
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A 7th grade girl, bullied and beaten on video at NYC's Mark Twain gifted and talented middle school, is now escorted by a staffer acting as a bodyguard during school, and her parents pick her up every day to accompany her out of the building. The DOE offered the victim a "safety transfer," while the attacker, briefly suspended, can stay.
@deirdre_bardolf
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Is @nypmetro only paper to carry this story? Bullies post TikTok videos edited with special effects of vicious beatdown of girl, 11, at BK gifted & talented school nypost.com/2023/12/02/metro/… via @deirdre_bardolf
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New: The Israeli Consulate and a parent group invited 51 top NYC school officials, including @DOEChancellor, deputies and superintendents, to view footage of the Oct. 7 atrocities committed by Hamas to better understand the Jewish plight.
Not one attended a screening or even replied.
“To not respond to us at all does not feel very supportive," said the father of a Brooklyn Tech student. "It enforces the feeling that the DOE does not take antisemitism seriously."
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NEW: "They caved."
NYPD will give the $10K reward to three teens who turned in the killer subway arsonist after first telling the young heroes they were ineligible.
The youths will get a Nintendo Switch to boot.
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NEW: NYPD denies $10K reward for three teens whose quick-acting call led cops to bust the man who set a woman on fire in the subway.
Why? They phoned 911 instead of the Crime Stoppers tipline.
“It's such B.S.," a father told Katherine Donlevy.
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"Andrew Cuomo is responding to the possibility of a career-ending defeat with all the grace of a cornered badger," the Albany @timesunion says in a damning editorial.
"The voters of New York City should ensure that he proceeds to the exit ramp."
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Frustrated by NYPD and DOE inaction, PTA moms at PS 166 in Queens did their own investigation, finding the president pilfered at least $40K meant for kids’ programs and spent it on vet bills, Amazon purchases and Uber Eats, @deirdre_bardolf reports.
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The diverse faculty at this Washington Heights HS voted "no confidence" in their principal, charging she tried to divide the staff by race and schemed to get rid of white teachers. She is now under investigation for discrimination. nypost.com/2021/07/10/washin… via @nypmetro
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Bronx HS teacher: "The majority of our kids are great kids. All they want is to come to school and not be bothered. In my school – with less than 400 students — maybe 8 to 10, tops, are causing all the chaos. But those kids can really do true damage."
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@NYC_SCI released its report last week -- after all six employees were fired or quit, and one settled last month with @NYCCOIB. She admitting taking two daughters to Broadway's “Wicked” and to Washington, D.C. in 2016, using slots meant for homeless kids. Her $1,200 fine was reduced from $3,000, the approximate cost of the trips, due to the “financial hardship” of losing her job the year before.
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New: The NYC middle school that ordered $745K in meals from one Caribbean restaurant last year spent nearly $20K in a single week on pork, chicken, oxtail and soul-food sides. The feasts were for faculty and other adults at events -- not for students.
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All in the family: Sheena Wright, Mayor Adams’ first deputy mayor and fiancée of schools chancellor David Banks, sits on NYCHA’s board and voted to approve a $154M contract with a firm previously owned by Phil Banks,Adams' deputy mayor for public safety and David's brother, @nytimes first reported.
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"There’s zero learning happening. We're just trying to keep everyone fed and alive," a Brooklyn HS teacher told me today. "There's too much disorder, and most students are home." Kids cutting in halls. Administrators out sick. No subs or Tweed/district envoys. "It's a farce."
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NEW: James Caban, the NYPD commissioner’s twin and a former cop, allegedly created a “nightlife consultancy company” and told clubs to hire the company’s employees, claiming “I’ll be able to make your place safer if you hire my security people," sources told @TinaMoorereport. nypost.com/2024/09/07/us-new…
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New: NYC schools chancellor David Banks never obtained a conflict-of-interest waiver to meet with a vendor who hired his younger brother Terence Banks's consulting firm and went on to reap $1.4M in payments from DOE schools.
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The NYPD said Crime Stoppers set reward rules, but @CMSusanZhuang, who honored one of the teen heroes this month, protested:
“These teens deserve the reward! Denying them the reward is wrong. These are just kids and they are taught to call 911, not some tip line."
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NYC students plan a walkout at 11:52 a.m. tomorrow to urge a remote option and greater safety precautions as Covid cases mount
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New: NYC DOE has quietly cut the per-pupil Fair Student Funding across-the-board for @nycschools.
@NYCMayor's statement that “Not one child is going to lose money from the Fair Student Funding” is false.
w/@cayla_bam
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The victim's father credits an assistant principal for trying to help, but the school's hands are tied by NYC DOE policies that avoid strict disciplinary measures like expulsion.
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The number of NYC schools where staffers have tested positive for COVID has risen to 150, including 108 where infected staffers came into contact with colleagues. The DOE still refuses to say how many are quarantined, but at IS 51 alone it's SEVENTY. nypost.com/2020/09/26/number…
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Today: Beacon HS principal warns: "We spent hours yesterday reporting to the DOE COVID Situation Room. . Despite our efforts with vaccination, masking, and air filters, the rise in positive test results suggests that school may be a source of spread."
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@NYCMayor fired her after a press conference, where he stood behind a sign that said, “Come to the city where you can say whatever you want”
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Besides a $750K salary, John King’s hiring package includes housing in Albany, a SUNY-owned vehicle or a $1K monthly car allowance, a $12.5K monthly NYC housing allowance -- and up to $4K a month for travel expenses to and from Maryland, where he currently lives.
BREAKING: A former state education commissioner, whose tenure was marked by the controversial rollout of the Common Core Learning Standards, has been chosen as the next SUNY chancellor. timesunion.com/news/article/…
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Arrested and released: The 18-year-old Hillcrest HS student charged with aggravated harassment and "making a threat of mass harm" against the Queens school was not jailed. The NYPD issued a desk appearance ticket, which sets a date in criminal court for him to appear later.
The vile show of antisemitism at Hillcrest High School was motivated by ignorance-fueled hatred, plain and simple, and it will not be tolerated in any of our schools, let alone anywhere else in our city.
We are better than this.
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Amazing: Mariangel Vargas, 11, a migrant from Colombia, has become a chess champion after one year in the US, competing in 50 tournaments around NY.
Living in a midtown shelter, she fell in love with chess at PS 11 in Chelsea.
"My favorite part of chess is when I’m winning,” she told @deirdre_bardolf in fluent English, which she has picked up as quickly as the game.
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NEW: Mayor Adams and @UFT prez Mike Mulgrew to announce today that @nycschools will close on Monday, Dec. 23. Originally, UFT agreed with DOE to have a one-day week before Christmas break.
Credit Isaac Regnier, 12, a Brooklyn student who petitioned to “Fix the NYC Schools Calendar."
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New: A Jewish mom and her husband were targeted and beaten at 5th-grade graduation at PS 682 in Brooklyn by people shouting "Free Palestine," they say.
“An event that was supposed to be joyous and memorable turned into a violent and traumatizing one.”
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“The fact that Mayor Adams, along with a majority of his cabinet, is either going to be indicted or has resigned for alleged criminal acts and then he has the audacity to remind teachers not to accept a gift, because of ethical impropriety, is the Gods of irony at work,” Forest Hills HS teacher Adam Bergstein told @AneetaBhole.
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NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch ousted Internal Affairs chief Miguel Iglesias, who was "very tight" with Jeffrey Maddrey, after he ignored her requests to investigate the massive overtime that Maddrey granted a female lieutenant.
Iglesias was “dragging his feet” with the probe.
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NEW: Whistleblower alleges the twin brother of ex-NYPD commish Edward Caban impersonated him to stop cops from probing illegal protection fees.
“We just thought it was the commissioner. I saluted him. Other cops also saluted him.”
via @TinaMoorereport
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Distancing himself, NYC schools chancellor David Banks assured his DOE team the FBI took his cell phone only because it was found next to Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright's phone in the Harlem home they share.
What a twist! @DOEChancellor seeks cell phone ban…and the FBI confiscated his phone on the first day of school! Wild
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Not mentioned at the press conference today:
The two FDNY fire chiefs charged with taking $190K in bribes retired this year at the onset of an investigation.
Now, Anthony M. Saccavino is set to receive an annual pension of $261,789 a year.
Brian E. Cordasco: $125,573.
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NYC ex-schools chancellor Richard Carranza is engaged to an administrator he brought from Houston to New York for a six-figure job with @nycschools. After he resigned in March 2021, she moved into his San Antonio apartment five months before quitting her DOE job .
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At Bronx HS of Science, 390 students have tested positive for Covid-19 in all reports over the last 7 days, and 443 in the last 14 days, the state shows.
But this week, only 24 of Bronx Sci's 2,936 students were tested at the school, according to DOE data.
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Brooklyn HS: "Frosty temps in class today. We can’t close the window because one of the teachers is on Day 8 of Covid."
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NEW: Two detectives investigating corruption in the NYPD showed up to work at @NYC_DOI and found photos of rats hung on their desks with their confidential license plate numbers.
"They want us off this case," one told @TinaMoorereport
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The NYPD sent 25 cops to Hillcrest HS to help corral kids back into classrooms during a 2-hour lockdown, and called in antiterrorism detectives to investigate. An 18-year-old student was arrested on charges of aggravated harassment and making a threat of mass harm.
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Breaking: New York has abruptly canceled the June 1 history Regents exam because experts say it "has the potential to compound student trauma caused by the recent violence in Buffalo."
This was a graduation requirement.
The NYS U.S. History Regents exam scheduled for June 1st has been cancelled! The reason: in the wake of the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, there is triggering content on the test…
From the State Education Department:
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This former NYC deputy chanellor praises Brooklyn’s District 15 for ending screened middle-school admissions in 2018. He snubbed those schools in his Park Slope neighborhood and got his own child into a highly selective and disproportionately white Manhattan middle school.
Congrats to @nycschools and @realdabvidcbanks for working with communities to drop many unfair MS screens that segregated our schools. And to the leaders in D15 who asked to drop all MS screens in 2018, and to @bradlander and @BilldeBlasio for taking that big step forward.
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"Our principals’ hands are tied. The pressure they are receiving from above not to suspend students, or to take any punitive measures at all, means there’s no accountability for any bad behavior. It’s this culture of sweeping things under the rug."
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BREAKING: The NYC teachers' union just endorsed @ZohranKMamdani for mayor.
The @UFT resolution passed with 63% of the delegate assembly voting in favor.
Mamdani "is the candidate who will best serve this city," it says.
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Mayor Adams should have known about this “vile show of antisemitism” at Hillcrest HS when it happened six days ago.
He didn’t say a word about it publicly until today.
The vile show of antisemitism at Hillcrest High School was motivated by ignorance-fueled hatred, plain and simple, and it will not be tolerated in any of our schools, let alone anywhere else in our city.
We are better than this.
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Bad optics? The mayor and team, including the first deputy chancellor @NYCSchools, all Zooming from home.
NYC, you have an amazing and coordinated team of public servants, from @NYCSanitation to @NYCEmergencyMgt to @NYCSchools and so many more, who are working around the clock on our winter weather response. Our focus is snow removal and safe commutes. Follow @NotifyNYC for updates.
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New: Andrew Cuomo will stay in the NYC mayor's race, but ask all the candidates except for Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani to vow to drop out in mid-September if they are not in the lead -- himself included, reports NewsNation, where brother Chris is an anchor. newsnationnow.com/us-news/an…
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Not fit for students or staff: 102 of the all-windowless clasrooms in the MLK building failed DOE ventilation tests. All six principals in the building call it unsafe. nypost.com/2020/09/05/offici… via @nypmetro
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“It’s wildly inappropriate for any school system to silence parents or squelch debate over curriculum and school culture. It’s a public school district that operates — or should — in the public interest with public dollars. The arrogance is stunning.” nypost.com/2022/05/28/doe-si…
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Speechless: The mayor's deputy mayor for communications — Fabien Levy, Adams' chief mouthpiece — is also unhappy and eyeing an exit, multiple sources have told The Post.
Half of Mayor Eric Adams' top aides officially say they are stepping aside with three citing 'the extraordinary events of the last few weeks'
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In the first 8 months after David Banks promoted her in 2022, Tracey Collins' schedule as a $221K-a-year "special adviser" in the NYC DOE left about 75% of the days blank, and "gave little sense of her role or a coherent set of responsibilities," @ChalkbeatNY found.
What does Eric Adams’ partner do for NYC’s schools? Tracey Collins’ calendar gives few answers. chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/1…
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Council member @VickieforNYC obtained video showing students at Hillcrest High School brutally beating a uniformed safety officer -- apparently a week before the riot over a Jewish teacher.
"The school administration tried to cover this up in the same way they tried to cover up the riot."
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The quiet suspensions of three Hillcrest HS students accused of organizing last week's riot against a Jewish teacher "lack the moral authority" that an immediate announcement and crackdown would have had six days earlier when the chaos occurred.
Did the mayor and his administration "hope no one noticed?"
Op-ed by @rlmac2
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The vile show of antisemitism at Hillcrest High School was motivated by ignorance-fueled hatred, plain and simple, and it will not be tolerated in any of our schools, let alone anywhere else in our city.
We are better than this.
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"If 41 city council members can sign a letter asking to restore the cuts, then 41 members should’ve voted no,” Tajh Sutton, a parent of two kids in @nycschools, said of the mea culpas.
via @cayla_bam
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The daughter of UFT prez Mike Mulgrew is a $165K senior advisor in a city agency now under investigation by the Manhattan DA. She works with the executive @NYCDCAS who supervises real-estate chief Jesse Hamilton. He had his phone seized in the probe.
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Eye-popping City Council testimony by @bradlander: Fair Student Funding increased at 354 NYC schools, about 23% of the total citywide. But 1,166 schools, 77%, are hit with cuts totaling $469M. About 450 schools have cuts exceeding 10% of their budgets. Dozens face cuts over $1M.
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NEW: Mayor Adams’ school chancellor David Banks & his first deputy mayor Sheena Wright to marry this weekend, possibly gaining the spousal privilege to not testify against each other. nypost.com/2024/09/28/us-new…
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As more tests confirm positive Covid cases, why do NYC teachers providing remote instruction have to congregate and work in school buildings?
All UFT members with in-person assignments will continue to report to school buildings next week even if they initially are providing remote instruction or services.
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“It’s not what I expected to see Democrats doing a week after the election. It’s insane! Stop screwing the working class!” @uft prez Mike Mulgrew told @ccampy, vowing to press the teachers union's lawsuit to stop @GovKathyHochul's congestion pricing plan.
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Winnie Greco, Eric Adams' ex-Asian Affairs advisor who resigned in October after the FBI raided her homes, has "disappeared” and may be cooperating with authorities against the indicted mayor, sources told @isareport. Her lawyer denies it.
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Breaking: New Rochelle -- NY's first Ground Zero of Covid -- is expected to announce that all schools will close and classes will be held remotely due to the rapid spread of Omicron at least through Jan. 12, @TalkoftheSound reports.
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NYC's Special Commissioner of Investigation confirmed today it is investigating whether Eric Adams' DOE girlfriend Tracey Collins put in vacation time for luxury trips wth the mayor, and had a "no-show" job.
She quietly left last Friday, retiring.
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Adams' girlfriend Tracey Collins, a DOE veteran, received a pay raise to $221,597 a year, up 23 percent over her salary in FY 21.
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NYC DOE posts 3,659 openings for substitute teachers and 3,020 for special-ed aides. “I’m expecting to see a lot of stress among principals, a deficiency in instructors, and a number of children going without mandated services,” said @BloomfieldDavid
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Lying in wait: Authorities purposely conducted the FBI raid while Mayor Adams was out of town for White House immigration meetings, which he aborted upon landing in DC.
@createcraig @ndhapple @ReuvenFen @SteveJanoski
Neighbors 'heard screaming' during FBI raid at home of Adams fundraiser who’s made more than $150K from mayor’s campaign nypost.com/2023/11/02/metro/… via @nypmetro
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New: Outgoing chancellor David Banks' daughter, a special-ed teacher, was hired by a Brooklyn superintendent for a district job, though lacking the required license and experience cited in the job posting.
"She followed in my footsteps in education." nypost.com/2024/10/12/us-new…
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EXPLANATION NEEDED for the abrupt removal of Resolution 5 from the NY City Council agenda tomorrow. It asks the state Legislature to pass and Gov. Hochul to sign bills that would reinstate NYC employees fired for refusing the COVID-19 vax.
Resolution 5, the "Let Us Work" Reso, has been PULLED OFF THE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
There will be NO VOTE on the "Let Us Work" Resolution 5 tomorrow, 12-19-25, it has been removed from the calendar
This is extremely disappointing and we don’t know what happened, but there will be no vote of RESOLUTION 5 tomorrow in City Council. Someone somewhere intervened to stop it, and we don’t know who or why.
To be clear - THIS DOES NOT MEAN OUR FIGHT IS OVER, NOT AT ALL. THE BATTLE WILL CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD. STAY TUNED FOR MORE UPDATES IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
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NYC will NOT post inspection reports on all schools today as promised. A spokeswoman for @nycmayor says the city will “share a comprehensive report next week.”
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NEW: Queens superintendent reveals Algebra 1 Regents scores dropped 14% at schools that piloted the hated Illustrative Math curriculum.
"We saw a decline across the city," she told parents.
NYC DOE has refused to divulge the results.
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Spending spree: NYC schools chancellor David Banks took office on Jan. 1, vowing to cut DOE’s bureaucratic bloat. In his first six months, spending on central and “school support” (district and borough offices) exceeded their FY 22
budgets by a total $107.9M.
@bradlander
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Terminations reversed: 10 staffers fired by @nycschools for refusing the COVID vaccine on religious grounds must be fully reinstated with back pay, pension benefits, and seniority, a state Supreme Court judge rules. silive.com/crime-safety/2023…
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Another one OUT: First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright is expect to resign as soon as today.
Sources say Wright is unhappy with how Mayor Adams booted her new husband, Chancellor David Banks, months earlier than planned, @createcraig reports.
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The DOE's claim that it has "doubled" testing in schools is apparently a big lie.
I analyzed testing data for 250 schools that hosted surveillance testing on Monday, comparing students tested with enrollment data.
Even after doubling the number of students tested, at 60 of those schools, fewer 5% of all students were tested.
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CLASS DISMISSED: The NYC DOE has sent pink slips to about 700 unvaccinated @UFT members on unpaid leave. The UFT has now joined a lawsuit charging that these members cannot be terminated without due process -- including administrative trials for those with tenure.
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On the other hand, DOE did not invite IBM to the pre-storm test-runs, Chancellor Banks admits.
That is not IBM's fault.
The leadership @nycschools was not ready for prime time.
"IBM was not ready for prime time and that’s what happened here," says Chancellor Banks about the remote snafus.
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The NYC DOE reports 345 new COVID infections -- 137 students, 208 school staff -- on Monday, Jan. 4. The most ever.
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Can City Hall explain the apparent cuts to NYC school budgets? How much have school budgets been slashed in total, and how is the reduction at each school determined? Under mayoral control, @NYCMayor is responsible and should be held accountable.
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In his shocking lawsuit, ex-NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig accuses former Commissioner Edward Caban of selling promotions for up to $15,000, and says Caban is under federal investigation for selling shields.
BOMBSHELL suits from former top brass says Mayor Adams' NYPD sold promotions, stole overtime, abused bodycams and promoted unqualified cops into sensitive positions.
Those who raised concerns, like former top det. James Essig, were told to take huge demotions - or resign.
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New: Mayor de Blasio is gone. His schools chancellor Richard Carranza long gone. Now taxpayers will pay $2.1M to three women a federal judge ruled “offer evidence of race-based discrimination in Carranza’s DOE.”
That’s mayoral accountability, late.
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What teachers and administrators went through when the first student in class tested positive for Covid. “I could see the terror in their eyes,” a teacher said of supervisors. “They were on the phone with the district, trying to figure out the protocol.” nypost.com/2020/10/03/first-…
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A Brooklyn HS teacher today said he found freshmen "screaming and running out" of an office where kids hung out.
"A student in the room had just tested positive and announced it."
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Brooklyn suffered the worst flooding. Any principal facing bad conditions in their school or neighborhood should decide whether to call parents to pick up their kids without fearing the wrath of "central." A citywide dictate may not fit all.
1. I'm not sharing the school
2. The school did EVERYTHING (and more) right in this instance
3. The parents are awesome for moving quickly
4. All kids are safe
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The New York Post’s endorsement of Eric Adams should join the media Hall of Shame with blunders
including one of the worst —the New York Times’ report that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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New: She's now the highest-paid NYC employee. Mayor Adams appointed Melissa Aviles-Ramos, 42, to replace David Banks as schools chancellor, giving her the same salary, recently raised to $414,799 a year, with fringe benefits plus a car and driver.
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Credit due: A local Long Island newspaper broke the George Santos four months before @nytimes reported on his lies nationally.
LongIsland.com shar.es/aflezV
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"A few weeks ago a female colleague asked a student to put his phone away during class. He told her, 'I know where you live. I’m coming after you.' The woman was so frightened she had to call a family member to come and escort her home."
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Cristina Melendez, the NYC DOE's $195K-a-year executive director of Family and Community Engagement, FACE, sent her two daughters to the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
Now she's suing the pricey private school for racial bias.
@matthewsedacca
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After a DOE probe found Amanda Lurie, a senior executive in the Office of Enrollment, was a chronic no-show and sold clothing on Poshmark during work hours, she was named a "senior adviser" to @DanWeisbergNYC with a $208,000 salary.
Now that it's been aired, she's gone.
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That comment was insulting to parents, an NYC DOE staffer said.
"It's not that some parents don’t want to ('navigate a computer for your child').
"It’s that we also have to work," many with young students at home today.
Mayor Adams yesterday when asked about parents who struggle with remote learning: “Snow days, my mother had to walk us to school with her arthritic knees. If you are a parent and you are not willing to navigate a computer for your child, that's a sad commentary.”
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The NYC DOE is now posting attendance percentages for @nycschools -- but no actual numbers. Without the numbers on which the percentages are based, it's impossible to calculate exactly how many enrolled kids are missing.
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Serious problem: New NYC DOE document confirms current citywide chronic absenteeism rate is 40% in multiple districts, colored red. It's between 30% and 40% in the other districts, colored yellow.
Chronic absenteeism is when students miss 10% or more of the school year.
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A mom who lost her father-in-law to COVID-19 said with so many people vaccinated now, she did not worry about her kids going to school and becoming ill. “I feel like at this point, it’s more detrimental to be wearing masks."
By @MelissaKleinNYP
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City salaries of indicted Mayor Adams and members of his team who resigned and/or remain under investigation.
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