Beth Fertig, a senior reporter on education for WNYC, contextualizes this week’s public hearing at Brooklyn Technical High School where the Panel for Educational Policy voted to shutter 19 city schools.
January 28, 2010 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, Guest Authors, The People
Nineteen schools were slated to be closed for poor performance last night, as hundreds at Brooklyn Technical High School addressed city officials in statements of defiance, pride, and at times malice. More after the jump.
January 27, 2010 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, Multi/Media, The People, Video
Beth Fertig, a senior reporter on education for WNYC, tackles the issue of state education funding and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity’s four year plan.
January 21, 2010 City Politics, Classic, Guest Authors, The People
Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Race to the Top is a $4.35 billion grant program that rewards states that are making strides in turning around struggling schools and enhancing education standards. Here’s what some of the players in New York’s education system are saying about the state’s application.
January 14, 2010 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, State Politics, The People
Beth Fertig, a senior reporter on education for WNYC, continues her Reader in Residence series with us this month with her second of four posts about literacy and education in New York. The author of Why Cant U Teach Me 2 Read?, Ms. Fertig tackles the issue of federal education funding this week under the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top program.
January 13, 2010 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, Guest Authors, The People
An excerpt and note from journalist and author Beth Fertig, senior reporter on education for WNYC Radio, New York’s NPR affiliate, from her book, ‘Why Cant U Teach Me 2 Read? Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools To The Test.’
January 7, 2010 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, Guest Authors, The PeopleAround lunch time last Friday, 18-year-old Chad Wilkens was standing in China City, on the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Dean Street in Crown Heights, when he was shot. An ambulance arrived and took Mr. Wilkens to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The media was nowhere to be found.
April 22, 2009 City Politics, Classic, Culture, The Locals, The People
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