
Michael Elsen-Rooney
Education Reporter at Chalkbeat New York
Education reporter @ChalkbeatNY | Formerly @NYDailyNews, @teacher_project, @HechingerReport, high school teacher | [email protected]
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6 days ago |
chalkbeat.org | Michael Elsen-Rooney
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. During the last Community Education Council elections in 2023, Manhattan parent Joseph Wallace was barely aware of the existence of his local parent council — much less who served on it or what happened during meetings.
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1 week ago |
route-fifty.com | Michael Elsen-Rooney
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. There are still many questions about what New York’s recently passed statewide “bell-to-bell” student cellphone ban will look like across New York City’s 1,600 public schools. Under the policy, announced last week as part of the budget deal between Gov.
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1 week ago |
chalkbeat.org | Michael Elsen-Rooney
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. There are still many questions about what New York’s recently passed statewide “bell-to-bell” student cellphone ban will look like across New York City’s 1,600 public schools. Under the policy, announced last week as part of the budget deal between Gov.
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1 week ago |
chalkbeat.org | Michael Elsen-Rooney
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. A new literacy-focused academy in central Brooklyn to help struggling readers. A health care-focused high school partnering with a hospital system in Queens. The city’s first-ever high school to offer early college classes through a historically Black institution.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Michael Elsen-Rooney
1 day agoThe highway superintendent of the town of Chester, N.Y., was charged with felony assault after he opened fire on a delivery worker, the authorities said. A town official in Chester, N.Y., opened fire on a food delivery driver who had come to his home to ask for directions, shooting him in the back, …
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Come work with @AGZimmerman, @the_zim and I covering NYC schools at Chalkbeat! https://t.co/jIfUTh3Olj Feel free to reach out if you're interested.

RT @PPVSRB: This oral history on de Blasio's decision to shut down schools during the pandemic really took me back. @ByJessicaGould's radio…

Not to mention, the new outreach efforts he’s touting here are funded by $5m in this year’s budget that expires in June - and that Adams didn’t renew in his prelim budget for next year. https://t.co/Hu8gHTZAaD

This is how the mayor announces a reversal, following pressure and protests, of his own administration’s decision to close five child care sites