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The school was so embarrassed by the sight of one music student with a trombone practicing in a storage closet during a Post visit last week that it forbade a news photographer from taking a ...
Conservative activists backed by leading Republicans are investing in school board elections. Liberal parents are fighting back, but they lack Democratic Party support.
The New York City government's budget is the largest municipal budget in the United States, [2] totaling about $112.4 billion in 2024. It employs 250,000 people, spends $23.5 billion to educate more than 1.1 million children, levies $27 billion in taxes, and receives $14 billion from federal and state governments.
The motto of the school from its inception was "a good school dedicated to the liberal arts." In the first graduating class, every student went on to attend college. The school was recognized by Chancellor Rudy Crew as one of the best high schools in the city and was regularly ranked among the city’s best public schools under Butz’s leadership.
In the Central Bucks School District north of Philadelphia, Democrats flipped three seats, ousting the incumbent school board president, and retained two others, giving the party majority control.
In 2015, the institute launched SchoolGrades.org, claiming that it was the only grading system that uses a rigorous, common standard to compare schools across the U.S.—accounting for differences in academic standards across states and each school's unique economic profile to provide a comprehensive picture of school performance in core subjects.
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The great school wars: A history of the New York City public schools (1975), a standard scholarly history online; Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds. City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Ravitch, Diane, ed. NYC schools under Bloomberg and Klein what parents, teachers and policymakers need to know (2009) essays by experts online