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NYC schools chancellor slams critics over abrupt ending to Queens school town hall, calling it a ‘set up’

Critics have slammed the chancellor for making an early exit from a town hall in Bayside last week after two furious parents stood up mid-meeting to demand answers from the schools chief about alleged assaults their middle school children suffered at M.S. 158




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Program that flooded NYC schools with extra resources showing results: study

The “community schools” program, which infuses schools with mental health counselors, free vision and dental care, and classes for parents, boosted attendance and on-time graduation rates in participating schools from 2015-2018, according to the report from the research group RAND Corporation.




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NYC schools Chancellor apologizes to Queens parents, promises meeting

Carranza made an early exit from a community meeting in Bayside last week after two parents demanded answers about violent incidents at Marie Curie Middle School. “I in no way want to show disrespect to any parent that wants to be heard, and I apologize because as a parent myself, I can only imagine the pain parents are feeling when their children have been hurt,” he said.




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Ballooning state aid for private schools subsidized teacher salaries at some of NYC’s most expensive private schools

A fast-growing New York state program that funds math and science teacher salaries at private schools paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of the city’s priciest private schools that can charge over $50,000 a year for tuition, the Daily News has learned.




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Progressive South Bronx charter school facing closure fights for survival

Teachers, parents, and supporters of Heketi Community Charter School in Mott Haven are fighting back, arguing that the school met its goals for academic growth.




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Agencies urge Gov. Cuomo to boost funding for special education preschool amid shortage

Advocates predict up to 2,000 city youngsters with disabilities may be unable to find an appropriate preschool this spring because of financial constraints that make it harder to hire and maintain teachers for special needs programs.




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Poly Prep tennis coach accused of sexual abuse by second former student in new Brooklyn court filing

The plaintiff, a former high school cheerleader identified only by the pseudonym “Mary Coe,” was in her first year at the school when defendant William Martire allegedly initially forced her to perform oral sex on him in the early 1980s, according to a horrifying 18-page Brooklyn Supreme Court filing.




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NYC school arrests cut in half amid policing reforms

NYPD officers made fewer than 150 arrests in city schools between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019 — about half the number of arrests cops made during the same months last year.




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NYC students enjoy free performance of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ at Madison Square Garden

City middle and high school students streamed off buses and trains, buzzing with excitement for the afternoon’s entertainment. For some, it was the first chance to see a Broadway show.




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Lawsuit challenges Trump administration toughening of student loan cancellation rules

New rules from federal Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would severely limit students' ability to clear debt by burying them in bureaucratic red tape, according to a new federal lawsuit.




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NY Board of Regents proposes letting non-lawyers be special ed judges

The New York Board of Regents said the move will allow the state to hire more judges and ease the growing backlog of cases.




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Three NYC teachers tested for coronavirus after returning from Italy

One of the educators, who works at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, tested negative despite showing symptoms, and the other two are awaiting test results, the mayor said




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NYC teacher arrested for collecting $29,000 from fraudulent medical leave

Jeffrey Gooding collected a city salary for five months during a medical leave — while simultaneously working for a Harlem charter school, according to investigators.




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Harlem charter school principal arrested for assaulting 7-year-old boy

Jason Epting, 43, the principal of Harlem Hebrew Language Academy, left the boy gushing blood from his forehead and concussed during a January encounter Epting first tried to brush off as an accident, the boy’s horrified mother told the Daily News.




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Advocates, public health experts urge NYC officials to begin ‘social distancing’ measures in response to coronavirus

In a letter, the group noted that past pandemics show large-scale social restrictions that keep people physically separated can make the most difference if done before the illness becomes widespread.




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CUNY faces mounting calls for closure over coronavirus concerns

The sprawling CUNY system, which serves over 250,000 students — many of whom are low-income — across 25 campuses, remained open Tuesday, and has no confirmed cases of the virus among students or faculty.




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Manhattan fifth-grader tops day one of Daily News spelling bee

Manhattan fifth-grader Vale Esposito took home top honors during the first day of the Daily News spelling bee Tuesday, despite being one of the youngest contestants on stage.




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Manhattan eighth grader wins second day of Daily News Spelling Bee

Ashwin Ranjan, a 13-year-old student at The Dalton School, correctly spelled “bauxite,” a type of sedimentary rock, to win the day and go to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.




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Catholic elementary schools in NYC and the surrounding counties to close for a week amid coronavirus concerns

The closure applies to Catholic elementary schools in Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx, the area covered by the New York Archdiocese. It will last from March 16 through March 20, “with the possibility of a lengthier closure,” according to diocese officials.




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City education officials ramp up remote learning resources ‘to prepare for potential school closure’

Education officials, in a Friday morning webinar, instructed all city principals to prepare for an extended shutdown by assembling materials to send home with students, reviewing how to use online teaching platforms and deciding how to communicate with families, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by The News.




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The biggest questions facing NYC’s new remote learning system

A look at some of the challenges the city school system will be tackling in the days ahead.




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NYC Education Dept. releases new details on contingency plans for food and childcare amid coronavirus school shutdown

The sites, which Mayor de Blasio first announced Sunday, will be staffed by a combination of city teachers and community-based organizations, according to a plan the city Education Department submitted to state officials Monday night.




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NYC’s remote learning amid coronavirus shutdown brings smiles, a few tears, on first day

Students cracked open laptops or homework packets Monday morning, while parents wrangled restless kids and teachers reconnected with pupils longing for some structure after a week of aimlessness spent mostly indoors.




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NYC school food workers fear for their health as schools continue to churn out meals during coronavirus shutdown

When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, Donald Nesbitt, then a cook at a Brooklyn public school, packed a bag and slept at school so he could continue making food for the many students who relied on him for their regular meals.




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Two NYC Education Dept. employees who shared building with principal who died of coronavirus also hospitalized: sources

Rona Phillips, the principal of KAPPA V High School in Brownsville, is in intensive care with pneumonia, officials said. “Our thoughts are with Principal Phillips and her family for a speedy recovery, and we’ll support the school community in every way we can,” said Education Department spokeswoman Miranda Barbot.




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NYU med school letting students graduate early to fight coronavirus

The Grossman School on Medicine is making the unprecedented move “in response to Governor Cuomo’s directive to get more physicians into the health system more quickly," it said in a statement.




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NYC officials ask for help for daycares providing critical services during coronavirus crisis

The small businesses, many of which already run on razor-thin margins, are struggling to make end meet amid the crisis.




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NYU students ask for refund, get video of dean dancing instead

NYU students ask for refund. Dean sends video of herself dancing




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'I don’t know what that grading system should look like’: Reality - and dilemma - of NYC’s remote learning sets in

Teachers and school leaders across the country are struggling to maintain a semblance of structure and normalcy during remote learning while adapting to the approach’s many limitations. Grades are at the center of that debate.




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They can’t catch a break: NYC schools lose a week of spring break to continue remote learning

City teachers and students will lose most of the annual public school pause this year after state officials announced remote learning would press on during the first half of April, officials confirmed Tuesday.




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NYC officials eliminate the last remaining days of school spring break

City schools were originally supposed to be off April 9-17.




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NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza tells teachers to stop using Zoom for remote learning due to security concerns

Many teachers have been relying on the videoconferencing platform to chat with students during remote learning.




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NYC students will be assigned enrichment activities during canceled spring break

The goal for remote learning during the break “is to maintain the exciting and enriching aspects that Spring Recess provides,” Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza told teachers in a Monday night email.




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CUNY opens emergency relief fund for struggling students with $2.75 million in private donations

CUNY officials hope the new relief effort — started with two $1 million donations from the Dimon and Petrie Foundations — will eventually grow to $10 million.




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Five kids, two iPads: how one Bronx family is navigating remote learning with a technology shortage

As a single parent of five young children with two iPads and no computers at home, she’s had to ration both her own attention, and her kids’ time with the devices.




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‘We paras are the front lines:’ NYC schools confront devastating coronavirus death toll among classroom paraprofessionals

Twenty-two of the city’s 25,000 paraprofessionals have died from the coronavirus, a rate four times higher than the rest of the 150,000-employee Department of Education, according to the agency’s data.




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Older NYC high school students working during coronavirus pandemic struggle to keep a grip on classwork

Maira Ramirez feels a pang of guilt when her phone buzzes with class assignments while she’s working double shifts at a kosher market to support her financially-strapped family during the pandemic. “I would be at work and see the notifications pop up on Google Classrooms," said Ramirez, a 20-year-old student at West Brooklyn Community High School — a transfer school for students who have struggled in traditional high schools. “I’d be like ‘Damn, I can’t even do them.'”




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7 Things All Great Brands Have In Common

A business’s brand is the way people perceive that business – in essence your brand is your business. Brands and perceptions of brands are created in a number of manners – from your messaging on social media, to your website design and content.
A holistic approach is a winning approach when it comes to branding, however not all businesses succeed in accomplishing this all-inclusive methodology. Branding that doesn’t match internal and external audiences’ perceptions can cause conflict, problems and ideally ...

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Happy Thanksgiving from RSS Ground service!

Dear RSS Ground Users!
 
RSS Ground team would like to thank all community members for being the live engine of the service all this long. We hope it is the same pleasure for you to use our RSS tools as it is pleasure for us to develop them.
 
We would like to use the opportunity of a Thanksgiving holiday to express our gratitude of being with us all that long by adding two new generators to our RSS ...

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12 Trends Search Marketers Can’t Ignore in Content Marketing

These days having an online presence is a necessity for businesses. Ninety-three percent 93% of online research begins with search engines, and 68 percent of potential customers research businesses using social media before making a purchasing decision.
Content marketing is a critical part of this online presence, as 93 percent of B2B companies use it to build their brand and create demand. In fact, B2B companies that blog regularly generate 67 percent more leads.
Here are 12 trends search marketers ...

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The 5 Biggest SEO Benefits of Blogging

Blogging has changed dramatically over the past decade. What was once considered a niche hobby or small point of differentiation has become a common practice in nearly every industry. It’s no longer a rudimentary aspect of business, either. It’s a very strategic mechanism with a wide range of benefits – enhanced SEO chief among them.
 
The State of the Blogosphere
Blogs, bloggers and blogging; these are heavily-discussed topics of conversation in the world of business and marketing. Are you ...

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8 Prime Rules for Running a Successful Online Business!

Every online business owner wants to establish the business and boost its sales and ROI – be it a large scale or a small-scale business.
People look for deploying different strategies that take their online business to new heights of success. Here are the 8 simple business tips that can help you get started.
 
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
SEO plays a key role to drive traffic to your website if your website is properly optimized. SEO improves the ...

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7 SEO-Boosting Tactics You Might Be Neglecting

When thinking about SEO, it’s tempting to concentrate on what’s occurring behind-the-scenes and neglect better ways to increase exposure. Whether you’re directly dealing with SEO or looking to compliment your existing SEO presence with tactics for additional exposure, it’s important to continually focus on developing and growing your digital marketing strategy.
 
On-Page vs. Off-Page SEO Factors
When you look at SEO, it’s important to understand the difference between on-page and off-page factors. While these two groups work together ...

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Mobile Marketing: How to Convert the Mobile Visitor

Digital marketing is having a moment — and it’s a mobile one. For months, digital marketers have been readying their sites for mobile traffic page by page and #Mobilegeddon has come to define the current zeitgeist. According to SMX Speaker and WordStream Content Marketing Specialist Margot da Cunha, this has been a long time coming.
“Everyone’s been preaching the importance of having a robust mobile marketing strategy for the past seven years or so, and although we all know this, ...

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How To Optimize Your Website Without Link-Building

If you work in the search engine optimization sector, you’ve probably heard too many times that ‘link-building is dead’. Well, yes and no.
Yes, because links alone won’t get you far these days. Search engines are constantly updating their algorithm; weeding out unnatural links or penalizing sites with spammy content. In fact, Google’s recent Phantom Update affected both small and large websites as it targeted thin, overused, and duplicated content.
No, because links are still the lifeblood of SEO and ...

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10 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About SEO

Remember the age old adage, keep your friends close but, your enemies closer? In the world of digital marketing and search engine optimization, there is no one closer to you in search rankings than your competitors. So why do business’ often overlook this step and jump right to building strategy? There is a wealth of information and competitive advantage that can be gained from finding and analyzing your competitors. When it comes to a thorough search engine optimization ...

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4 Useful Remarketing Tips

Remarketing is a powerful tool for anyone using Google Adwords to drum up more business. It’s often under utilized and today I will be sharing some tips on how you could be doing it better.

1: Dynamic Remarketing For All Verticals:
Dynamic remarketing ads generally have a much higher success rate than static ads. You create a custom feed and upload it (Google has tutorials for this).Then you will be able to choose from a good amount ...

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Five subs and a VAR cessation among FIFA amendments

Football's lawmakers have approved a temporary rule change that will allow each side up to five substitutes per match, while opening up the prospect for the controversial video assistant referee system to be suspended.




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US Women's team file to appeal equal pay ruling

The US Women's soccer team have filed to appeal a district court decision handed down last week that dismissed their claims for equal pay.




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Repeat Sigange V4 - New Flash based touch screen system

Allows pictures/PDF/PowerPoint files to be selected and for users to interact with them.