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These 94 schools are set to receive extra funding and learning time
Ninety-four low-performing schools are about to get a lot more attention from the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today. Called "Renewal Schools," they will receive…
a plan emerges
94 struggling schools will get extra support, but could still face closure
The city will spend $150 million to turn around more than 90 struggling schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday, and is prepared to reorganize or close schools that don't succeed after getting additional help.
Read Mayor Bill de Blasio's speech outlining a $150M plan for school improvement
The city will spend $150 million to turn around more than 90 struggling schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday, and is prepared to reorganize…
Under pressure, de Blasio set to outline plan to improve struggling schools
Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to unveil the city's long-awaited plan to rescue more than 90 low-performing schools in a speech Monday.
Two Heads > One
50 pairs of first-year principals and APs to take over struggling schools
Over the next three years, 50 principal-assistant principal pairs will try to turn around struggling schools across the city with training and coaching support from the NYC Leadership Academy.
The Cold Shoulder
Members of Boys and Girls HS leadership team feel shut out as city intervenes
Members of the Boys and Girls High School leadership team say the city submitted a school-improvement plan to the state and hired a new principal without alerting them, despite city regulations that require the team to be consulted.
A Hard Bargain
Incoming Boys and Girls principal gets big bonus, option to return to old school
From Oct. 2014: The veteran principal tapped to rescue troubled Boys and Girls High School will get to play a continued role at the successful school he is leaving.
Fariña appoints new Boys and Girls principal as staffers await her turnaround plan
From Oct. 2014: Chancellor Carmen Fariña tapped the longtime leader of a Brooklyn school to take over struggling Boys and Girls High School as staffers wait for direction.
Advocates pushing city on struggling schools choose an unlikely champion
The de Blasio administration's delay in publicizing plans for the city's struggling schools has made strange bedfellows out of an advocacy group that supports school closures and a principal who for years resisted his own school's potential shuttering.
Calling it Quits
Departing leader of Boys and Girls HS: City's turnaround plan 'doomed to fail'
Bernard Gassaway, the outspoken principal of Brooklyn's troubled Boys and Girls High School, said he is stepping down because he believes the plan the city is developing to turn around the school is "doomed to fail."
State ed chief: Closure should still be considered for city's struggling schools
King made clear Thursday that he believes the city's most troubled schools should still face closure — even under a mayor and chancellor who fiercely criticized…
Going Grade-less
Under gentler rating system, schools will no longer be ranked or graded
The city has revamped the way it rates schools, schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced Wednesday, transforming school report cards into something more like online reviews.
late notice
De Blasio stays mum on plans for struggling schools
Mayor de Blasio said he'd have more specifics about how to deal with the city's worst-performing schools in "the next few weeks," echoing the timeline he offered a month earlier, when he promised a "coherent, energetic, purposeful effort to save schools."
No Late Arrivals
To stabilize two struggling schools, city will not send them new students mid-year
The city will not send any latecomer students, who often pose extra challenges, to at least two long-struggling high schools this year, officials said.
Priority Schools?
Classes have started, but some struggling schools still await clear guidance from the city
More than two weeks into the school year, principals of some of the city's most troubled schools say they still don't know how exactly the city plans to intervene — and that the delays will make it harder for them to turn around their schools this year.