Talk:New York City Department of Education
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This is a very rosey picture of the NYC schools. This school had 2 kids expelled. What about the issues of underfinancing relative to surrounding school systems and other large urben school systems? What about criticisms from Kozol and others that the NYC school system is as segregated as Alabama's in the 50s? Can we tackle these issues in the entry?
- The above anonymous writer is dead-on. This is written as though someone at the Tweed Courthouse headquarters wrote it. Teaching 20:39, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Need to improve the History section
The history section seems to be exclusively about nutritional changes in lunch menus.
[edit] Name change and who is in charge.
The system changed from "Board of Education to "Department of Education" when it became an office of the Mayor. Ultimately, the mayor of New york City is in charge of the Department of Education and is responsible for its success or failures. However, Mayor Bloomberg gives enormous latitude to Chancellor Joel Klein and never seems to question his (Klein's) motives or decisions.
At the city's most elite, competitive public high schools, the student demographics are different. In the 2005-6 school year, blacks made up 4.8% of the Bronx Science student body, down from 11.8% in 1994-95. At Stuyvesant High School, blacks comprised 2.2% of the student body, down from 4.4%. Hispanic enrollment has declined at the three schools and white enrollment has declined at two of the three. At the same time, the Asian population has soared to 60.6% at Bronx Science, up from 40.8% 11 years ago [1]. Education experts suggest the demographics of these elite specialized high schools are influenced by the use of competitive entrance exams as the sole criteria for admission.
- OK, tell me what is the third school.
[edit] Regions
Is there any reason to have these large and ungainly templates inserted into the article when the article itself states that they're going to be dissolved in a matter of weeks anyway? Ford MF 17:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
- Let's put them on templates for deletion and create new templates for the new regions. WhisperToMe 21:29, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bronx High School of Science
What's with the picture of a greek temple for bronx science?? I don't know how to change it. --70.49.57.219 18:39, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Region deletion
I've put Region 9 Template up for TfD [1]. The rest seem to be articles, not regions. We should delete them, next. In the meantime, the links to the regions need to be removed from a bunch of articles. It occurs to me that a general article about the history of the NYC Board of Education, or at least about its changing structure, might be in order. Can this main article incorporate history? Jd2718 (talk) 00:42, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
