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When will Klein/Bloomberg actually Design a long-term Strategy for Our Public Schools?

January 10, 2004

or, When Will at least a conversation - not a monologue - take place?

New tests are teachers' pet peeve, as they waste dozens of hours doing busywork this fall administering a time-consuming new reading test, The Early Childhood Literacy Assessment System.

City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz (D-Manhattan), chairwoman of the committe said school officials should have anticipated the time crunch and given teachers more help. "It's as if the instructional people and budget people never talk to one another," she said.