Buffalo Billion and beyond...

Buffalo Billion and beyond...

Buffalo school board election 2016 update

Buffalo school board election 2016 update

Puerto Rico's School Crisis

Puerto Rico's School Crisis

"Since 2014, the Puerto Rican government has closed 135 schools— about 10% of the schools on the island. The results of these school closings are class sizes as large as 40 students. The new law requires the closure of 400 more public schools—30% of the remaining public schools on the island. Additionally, Project 1456 requires that the government turn at least 15% of schools into Lider (charter schools) every three years under the auspices of private control and the education authority. - See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/11/188428/puerto-ricos-school-crisis#.dpuf

Dr. Betty Rosa new Chancellor Board of Regents

Dr. Betty Rosa new Chancellor Board of Regents

HOMENAJE: A Tribute to Victor Hernández Cruz

HOMENAJE: A Tribute to Victor Hernández Cruz: I get an urgent message from poet Dr.

Q&A with John Starkey, head of Buffalo’s Lafayette High relaunch

Q&A with John Starkey, head of Buffalo’s Lafayette High relaunch

A Western New Yorker for U.S. Supreme Court

A Western New Yorker for U.S. Supreme Court

AFT convention

Going to the AFT Convention as a delegate for the BTF

AFT Convention 2016MONDAY, JULY 18, 2016 - 9:00AM TO THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016 - 12:00PMMINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION CENTERMINNEAPOLIS - See more at: http://www.aft.org/event/aft-convention-2016#.dpuf

The New Federal ESSA Statute: A Step Backward for Fair School Funding

By Michael A. Rebell 

At the end of 2015, Congress finally enacted a new version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which now will be known as the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA). Our highly polarized Congress was eight years late in reconsidering and revising the major federal statute for funding services for students who are “educationally disadvantaged”; the previous version of this law, known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), was scheduled for reauthorization in 2007. Millions of students living in poverty, and English language learners (ELLs), were, in fact, left behind by NCLB. Although ESSA does in limited ways correct some of the shortcomings of NCLB and provide scope for some educational innovations, on balance this new law ignores the real needs of the students it is designed to serve and so is likely to be no more successful than its predecessor in carrying out the aspirations of its title.