The New York State Council of School Superintendents Education News Feed http://www.nyscoss.org Current Education News from the The New York State Council of School Superintendents <![CDATA[Editorial: Common Core and NCLB]]> <![CDATA[State may add long paper to high school tasks]]> <![CDATA[School bus breath test locks for drivers could cost $100M]]> <![CDATA[State bans 'side deals' on union contracts]]> <![CDATA[NY state seeks to dismiss teachers' tax-levy cap lawsuit]]> <![CDATA[Common Core values are exactly what New York students need]]> <![CDATA[First day of state Common Core math tests a relief, teachers say]]> <![CDATA[Saratoga Springs school district creates more STEM opportunities for students]]> <![CDATA[Less time, more questions for Common Core Assessments]]> <![CDATA[New tests get failing grades from some parents, teachers: School Day]]> <![CDATA[Parents let students boycott state tests]]> <![CDATA[Test anxiety grips students, teachers]]> <![CDATA[State to students: Take the tests]]> <![CDATA[New York's education commissioner defends new tests]]> <![CDATA[State makes case for new, more challenging curriculum in schools]]> <![CDATA['Over-testing' criticized by local teachers ]]> <![CDATA[North Country schools face uncharted ground ]]> <![CDATA[School districts get $1 billion increase (Lowry featured)]]> <![CDATA[New York state teachers union opens new offensive against 'obsessive' testing]]> <![CDATA[As Holy Days Dot Calendar, State Budget Must Wait]]> <![CDATA[Deal May End City’s Standoff With Teachers]]> <![CDATA[Teacher evaluations to be permanent]]> <![CDATA[Midnight Budget Voting Planned]]> <![CDATA[Pension smoothing plan reworks an existing model]]> <![CDATA[Questions remain on N.Y. state budget deal]]> <![CDATA[Regional high school legislation is not certain]]> <![CDATA[State budget within reach]]> <![CDATA[Expert Roundtable: Education]]> <![CDATA[School aid cut has day in court]]> <![CDATA[Elmira Height rally draws over 600]]> <![CDATA[Not Many Options For Cash-Strapped Schools]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo school grant program awards little money]]> <![CDATA[Judge Says State Cannot Withhold Aid to City Schools Over Teacher Evaluation Impasse]]> <![CDATA[Capital Region reps want more school funding]]> <![CDATA[NYSUT Files Legal Challenge Against Property Tax Cap]]> <![CDATA[Less than 1/2 of Governor's competitive grant funds to schools awarded]]> <![CDATA[On New York School Tests, Warning Signs Ignored]]> <![CDATA[Upstate Senators Look To Direct Money To Rural Districts]]> <![CDATA[EDITORIAL: State can't nickel and dime rural school districts]]> <![CDATA[Blog: Teacher Evaluation Battle On The Airwaves]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo will slap city with teach-eval plan]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: SCHOOL IMBALANCE]]> <![CDATA[Robot attends school for boy with allergies]]> <![CDATA[Mohawk-Ilion school district merger passes]]> <![CDATA[Schools teeter on edge of cliff (Council featured)]]> <![CDATA[A night of advocacy for state education funding (Council featured)]]> <![CDATA[School Superintendents Discuss Rising Costs (Council featured)]]> <![CDATA[Education Advocates Discuss School Funding Formula (Lowry featured)]]> <![CDATA[Educators: After Newtown, lawmakers must help strengthen mental health in schools]]> <![CDATA[Holding States and Schools Accountable]]> <![CDATA[King urges federal government to legislate evaluations]]> <![CDATA[Goodbye Mayor Koch, Rest in Peace]]> <![CDATA[Schools raise uproar for help]]> <![CDATA[Expert: public schools facing fiscal peril]]> <![CDATA[Hundreds Hear Dire Forecast For Schools]]> <![CDATA[1500 turn out attend rally to address school funding gap]]> <![CDATA[Education chief wants more aid]]> <![CDATA[Teacher’s Retirement System Cautious On Cuomo’s Pension Plan]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo budget cuts aid to some local school districts Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Little-help-from-state-school-aid-boost-4218764.php#ixzz2IuResD7t]]> <![CDATA[Better learning costs money]]> <![CDATA[Blog: Cuomo’s education spending proposals]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: The Teacher Evaluation Fight]]> <![CDATA[Tougher security on way for schools]]> <![CDATA[Let's stop failing our children]]> <![CDATA[Gov. Andrew Cuomo urges more time in school, but where's the money? (Lowry featured)]]> <![CDATA[Another voice: Where is relief from New York’s mandate madness?]]> <![CDATA[Reaction To Cuomo’s State of the State Address (NYSCOSS statement quoted)]]> <![CDATA[Schools: NYSUT finds ‘a lot to like’]]> <![CDATA[State of N.Y.: Incomplete]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo to Announce Education Reforms in Address]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo: Build three Upstate casinos, lengthen school]]> <![CDATA[Opinion: Mr. Cuomo’s biggest task]]> <![CDATA[Unifying school districts on reforms list (Lowry featured)]]> <![CDATA[Talks on Teacher Evaluations Disintegrate as Deadline Looms]]> <![CDATA[Education panel skips cost equation]]> <![CDATA[Sharing services more common for schools]]> <![CDATA[North country school advocates urged to lobby governor]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo touts school changes]]> <![CDATA[Real or Not, World’s End Is Trouble for Schools]]> <![CDATA[Tilles: How do you evaluate the teacher dedication we've seen?]]> <![CDATA[North Syracuse agreement could salvage $4.7 million in school aid]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo reaffirms Jan. 15 deadline for teacher evaluation plans]]> <![CDATA[NYS school districts alter security measures after CT shooting (Reidy featured)]]> <![CDATA[Superintendents Discuss School Safety]]> <![CDATA[Gov. Cuomo Says Districts Must Have Teacher Eval System In Place By Mid January--Or Else]]> <![CDATA[The Heroes of Sandy Hook]]> <![CDATA[Schools Review Safety Policies]]> <![CDATA[Race to the Top takes Middletown by surprise]]> <![CDATA[Bob Lowry interview on Capitol Pressroom (approx. 20 minutes in)]]> <![CDATA[Video: Fiscal Cliff Could Have Large Imact On Schools (Lowry featured)]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo agency boss leaving for education department]]> <![CDATA[NYC schools chancellor sets deadline]]> <![CDATA[LI students helping kids hit by Sandy (The Council's Schools Helping Schools featured)]]> <![CDATA[School districts, facing insolvency, have to look at unpopular options]]> <![CDATA[Governor sets out priorities]]> <![CDATA[Standoff between Buffalo teachers union and school district imperils millions]]> <![CDATA[Paulin's bills support mandatory kindergarten in N.Y.]]> <![CDATA[Top Breakaway Democrat Favors G.O.P. Coalition in State Senate]]> <![CDATA[26 schools at risk of closing in Archdiocese]]> <![CDATA[Plans still needed from districts]]> <![CDATA[Report: 40% of school districts unable to pay bills in four years (video, Lowry featured)]]> <![CDATA[NYSCOSS’s Lowry On School Districts’ Growing Financial Woes (Time Warner id required for viewing)]]> <![CDATA[Opinion: Our View: School funding at a critical juncture]]> <![CDATA[Special session in Albany appears unlike]]> <![CDATA[Storm Prompts New York City’s Schools to Cancel 3 Days Off]]> <![CDATA[Report: Insolvency looms for NY school districts]]> <![CDATA[As deadline nears, contract talks hold up evaluations]]> <![CDATA[Fonda Fultonville out of money]]> <![CDATA[More Students Return to Classroom, at Strange Schools in Strange Places]]> <![CDATA[Opinion: The assignment: fix the schools]]> <![CDATA[Regents consider increasing mergers]]> <![CDATA[Legislature may alleviate schools' requirement for 180 days of classes]]> <![CDATA[Schools, Some Relocated, Will Reopen Monday]]> <![CDATA[Opinion: Cuomo can’t give up on mandate relief]]> <![CDATA[Our view: Special legislation for merger vote should be passed]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo To Local Governments: Good Luck]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: Stop bogus 'continuing ed' for teachers]]> <![CDATA[After merger failure, Valley districts consider their options]]> <![CDATA[Forum focus to be on tax cap, school aid cuts]]> <![CDATA[Seeking Aid, School Districts Change Teacher Evaluations]]> <![CDATA[A Push for Mandate Relief in New York (Reidy quoted)]]> <![CDATA[Only half of school districts have filed plans for teacher evaluations]]> <![CDATA[State budget's aim is low growth]]> <![CDATA[Schools’ Failure to Improve May Lead to More Closings]]> <![CDATA[Gov. Andrew Cuomo releases 'tracker map' to follow teacher evaluation progress]]> <![CDATA[Suspect named in homicide of Clymer School Superintendent Keith Reed]]> <![CDATA[Critics: New York's competitive education grants hurt needy schools; process flawed]]> <![CDATA[ Tax cap mystifies many residents as school bills arrive]]> <![CDATA[State in time crunch on teacher eval plans]]> <![CDATA[N.Y. education panel hears from critics on teacher evaluations, financing]]> <![CDATA[State finds assessing eval systems to be harder than expected]]> <![CDATA[State releases new accountability rankings of schools]]> <![CDATA[Superintendent Santo Barbarino of Lynbrook, dies at 67]]> <![CDATA[Education Week: Elections side by side]]> <![CDATA[State offers 10 districts’ evaluation plans as models]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo gets ‘mandate relief’ test in the form of special-ed placement bill]]> <![CDATA[Regents chief says approval of disclosure law is urgent]]> <![CDATA[Blog: Mayor: Can't Show Only Parents Teacher Evals]]> <![CDATA[Schools may sue over state tax cap]]> <![CDATA[John King and the State Ed Building]]> <![CDATA[NY schools finding many empty seats in the classroom]]> <![CDATA[Cities near a tipping point]]> <![CDATA[New teacher evaluations mean tests and more tests for schools]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: ‘I’ for ]]> <![CDATA[Op-ed: New York gets left back]]> <![CDATA[usiness Groups: DiNapoli Report Shows Need For Real Change]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo Vetoes Bill on Placement of Special Education Students]]> <![CDATA[Gov. Cuomo to veto special ed bill that could make it easier to send kids to private or religious schools]]> <![CDATA[To Earn Classroom Certification, More Teaching and Less Testing]]> <![CDATA[Campbell Brown: Teachers Unions Go to Bat for Sexual Predators]]> <![CDATA[Communities in Crisis - Reidy featured on Capital Tonight]]> <![CDATA[http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Albany-picks-new-school-superintendent-3734750.php]]> <![CDATA[State Ed: Standardized test scores improve]]> <![CDATA[Anxiety rises with grades]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: Veto the special ed bill]]> <![CDATA[Top court rules against state in school aid case]]> <![CDATA[At first meeting, Cuomo’s ed reform commission maps road trip]]> <![CDATA[SUNY mulls new high school exam to test college readiness]]> <![CDATA[Blog: Cuomo signs teacher eval disclosure restriction bill]]> <![CDATA[Regents chief says approval of disclosure law is urgent]]> <![CDATA[Opinion: Multiple pathways to graduation essential]]> <![CDATA[Push to restrict public release of teacher evaluations gets last-minute reprieve]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo: Session Will End with No Agreement on Teacher Evaluation Disclosure]]> <![CDATA[Teacher-Score Deal Close]]> <![CDATA[Controversial talks over teacher evaluations on the verge of crumbling]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo, Legislature agree on cyberbullying bill]]> <![CDATA[Gov. Cuomo defends privacy of teachers in evaluation battle]]> <![CDATA[Reacting to Criticism, Cuomo Adds to His Education Commission]]> <![CDATA[Reacting to Criticism, Cuomo Adds to His Education Commission]]> <![CDATA[Video: Council joins Bloomberg in supporting legislation to protect children]]> <![CDATA[Video: Council joins Bloomberg in supporting legislation to protect children]]> <![CDATA[Video: Council joins Mayor Bloomberg in supporting legislation to protect children.]]> <![CDATA[State wins federal school waiver]]> <![CDATA[City wants power to fire teachers accused of sexual misconduct]]> <![CDATA[Bill would give schools more say over firing teachers in sex-abuse cases]]> <![CDATA[Bill would give schools more say over firing teachers in sex-abuse cases]]> <![CDATA[Average-wealth districts sought overrides: Lowry quoted]]> <![CDATA[Podcast: Lowry on Capitol Pressroom]]> <![CDATA[Average-wealth districts sought overrides: Lowry quoted]]> <![CDATA[Podcast: Lowry on Capitol Pressroom]]> <![CDATA[Schools may sue over state tax cap]]> <![CDATA[Shen teacher wins 'Live! With Kelly' award]]> <![CDATA[Video: Lowry, Kremer & Timbs on school budget votes]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: Some lessons in austerity]]> <![CDATA[Polls open for school district budgets, boards]]> <![CDATA[Schools nearing the brink]]> <![CDATA[2 percent tax cap misnomer creates confusion]]> <![CDATA[Tier schools cutting nearly 200 jobs: How will voters react?]]> <![CDATA[Schools nearing the brink]]> <![CDATA[Tier schools cutting nearly 200 jobs: How will voters react?]]> <![CDATA[2 percent tax cap misnomer creates confusion]]> <![CDATA[State's new formula means different things for different schools]]> <![CDATA[Voters to decide fate of area school budgets exceeding state law]]> <![CDATA[Commentary: King - Give students tools for future]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo targets education reform]]> <![CDATA[BTF battle applauded by teachers statewide]]> <![CDATA[No teachers, administrators named to Cuomo education panel]]> <![CDATA[BTF battle applauded by teachers statewide]]> <![CDATA[Southern Tier districts feeling pressure to consolidate]]> <![CDATA[Blog: Cuomo Appoints Education Commission With Broad Purview]]> <![CDATA[Education-aid case hits top court]]> <![CDATA[Yonkers proposed school budget adds staff; no teacher layoffs]]> <![CDATA[School district taxes affected little by cap (Lowry quoted)]]> <![CDATA[STEM leads students to 21st-century jobs]]> <![CDATA[NY admits standardized math tests don't add up]]> <![CDATA[After controversy over pineapple question on city schools test, a question about a yam stirs new troubles]]> <![CDATA[Education Department considers creating large regional high schools]]> <![CDATA[Kremer and Sampson: Reform needed to control costs, encourage bargaining]]> <![CDATA[State considers making too-hard Regents test optional]]> <![CDATA[Oped: McMahon: Tax cap doesn't always equal 2%]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: LI schools feel tax cap pressure]]> <![CDATA[BEST4NY Seeks Suspension of Triborough Amendment]]> <![CDATA[Students required to take 9 hours of English and math exams and state using dummy questions]]> <![CDATA[Much at stake as New York tests students in its schools]]> <![CDATA[Albany bids to strip Mike’s school control]]> <![CDATA[School budget growth sinks quickly; districts retreat to core programs]]> <![CDATA[Op-ed: Teacher evaluation and tenure are inseparable]]> <![CDATA[Deal near on ‘secret’ teacher evaluations]]> <![CDATA[$30M 'bullet' targets aid gap]]> <![CDATA[Schools: Aid too short]]> <![CDATA[School aid to increase $805M in state budget]]> <![CDATA[NY schools, taxpayers wary of tax cap budget hits]]> <![CDATA[Op-ed: The public deserves to see teacher evaluation ratings]]> <![CDATA[Ravitch: The toll of school reform on public education]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo Backs Release of Teacher Evaluations]]> <![CDATA[Lawmakers reach tentative budget deal]]> <![CDATA[Pols’ ‘sneaky’ bid to ban teacher grades]]> <![CDATA[No Limits On Teacher Evaluation Info, Skelos Says]]> <![CDATA[School tax caps are forcing tough choices]]> <![CDATA[Op-ed: N.Y.'s Wicks Law drives up expenses of projects big and small]]> <![CDATA[Blog: Budget negotiations continue]]> <![CDATA[Op-ed: Repeal Triborough]]> <![CDATA[Evaluations split teachers, union]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo says he’ll shift on competitive school aid]]> <![CDATA[Delay weighed for NYS teacher ratings debut]]> <![CDATA[NY makes gains in graduating high school students]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: Some lessons in compromise]]> <![CDATA[Teacher Ratings Face New Union Obstructions ]]> <![CDATA[Pension cut - at what cost to Cuomo?]]> <![CDATA[State acts to derail standardized test cheats]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo defends late-night compromises]]> <![CDATA[Downstate school chiefs unite over mandates]]> <![CDATA[Stakes are high in impasse over evalutions]]> <![CDATA[Legislature seeks to restore $200M to NY schools]]> <![CDATA[Publisher's notebook: ‘Save’ a school, destroy a future]]> <![CDATA[Opinion: Empty promises to the kids]]> <![CDATA[Council of School Superintendents Wraps Up Winter Conference]]> <![CDATA[Tier VI turns to compromise]]> <![CDATA[Mayor Seeks Pension Relief From Albany]]> <![CDATA[State Eyes Shielding Teachers]]> <![CDATA[With Release of Teacher Data, Setback for Union Turns Into a Rallying Cry]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: Hard times, hard choices]]> <![CDATA[Shame Is Not the Solution]]> <![CDATA[DiNapoli: NY pensions are worth defending]]> <![CDATA[Millions of dollars restored to local schools]]> <![CDATA[States Try to Fix Quirks in Teacher Evaluations]]> <![CDATA[School districts stretched thin]]> <![CDATA[Voters split on Cuomo’s handling of school issues]]> <![CDATA[Cuomo optimistic on teacher evaluation deal by deadline]]> <![CDATA[Teacher evaluations deadline looms in Albany]]> <![CDATA[State may bypass GED]]> <![CDATA[Editorial: Time's (almost) up on evaluations]]> <![CDATA[Final week of school duel]]> <![CDATA[10 States Are Given Waivers From Education Law]]> <![CDATA[BOCES upgrades may hinge on tax-cap fix]]> <![CDATA[Gov. Andrew Cuomo says urban schools are shortchanged]]>