Amy Zimmer
New York Bureau Chief at Chalkbeat
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2 days ago |
chalkbeat.org | Alex Zimmerman |Amy Zimmer
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. Parent leaders across the city are raising alarms about New York City’s local school council elections, citing “gross mismanagement” of the process by the Education Department.
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1 week ago |
chalkbeat.org | Amy Zimmer
How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs. Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free monthly newsletter How I Teach to get inspiration, news, and advice for — and from — educators. As a success mentor at Brooklyn’s A-Tech High School, Keiron Darnley helps students at risk of being chronically absent. A big reason he clicks so well with them: He was in their shoes less than a decade ago.
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2 weeks ago |
chalkbeat.org | Michael Elsen-Rooney |Amy Zimmer
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. Just hours into the first day of voting for New York City’s elected parent councils, Education Department officials took the system offline to fix “technical issues,” a spokesperson said. It wasn’t immediately clear what officials were fixing.
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3 weeks ago |
chalkbeat.org | Amy Zimmer
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. It’s testing season for New York City’s public school students in grades 3-8, and after computer glitches plagued other parts of the state’s test takers, all eyes will be on what happens in the nation’s largest school system. Schools are planning to administer the computer-based version of the English Language Arts between Tuesday and May 2.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Amy Zimmer
This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. A group of 16 Democratic attorneys general along with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration for halting access to hundreds of millions of dollars of federal pandemic relief money.
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