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Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Public Hearing Registration – New York City, Tuesday, October 1, 2024, from 6:00–9:00 pm

Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Public Hearing Registration – New York City The New York State Education Department will hold a public hearing on dyslexia and dysgraphia on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, from 6:00–9:00 pm at The Windward School, 212 E 93rd St, New York, NY 10128. All members of the public—including students, parents, teachers, school administrators and staff, …

PA/PTA Professional Development Session: PA/PTA Roles & Responsibilities: A-660 Overview – 09/10/2024

Good morning, D28 Parent Leaders,  Congratulations as a newly elected member of your schools PA/PTA! I am excited and look forward to supporting you in any way possible.  To get you started, I would like to invite you to our PA/PTA professional development session: PA/PTA Roles & Responsibilities: A-660 overview. This workshop is designed to inform all PA/PTA members of their roles and responsibilities.  …

CCSE Survey on Denied IESP Services

FYI and Please Share! Español Abajo. Hello everyone, The Citywide Council on Special Education has created a survey to obtain data on the scope of the IESP denials. We are collecting data to better inform our advocacy plan.  Please feel free to share widely to anyone with an IESP/IEP. Thank you. Buenos días, amigos, El …

Advisory Council for Boldly Reimagining Multilingualism in NYC Public Schools

In June 2024, Chancellor Banks announced the creation of an advisory council for Boldly Reimagining Multilingualism in NYC Public Schools. This Multilingual NYC Advisory Council will include students, parents, community members, and New York City Public Schools staff. Goals of the Multilingual NYC Advisory Council: Providing every NYC Public School student with a pathway to …

Calling all NYC high school juniors and seniors!

Opportunity high school Juniors & Seniors Know a high school junior or senior in NYC who loves to write? Send them our way. There are just two more days to apply for Chalkbeat’s 2024-25 Student Voices Fellowship. The essay-writing program is open to juniors and seniors at public and charter high schools in New York …

FYI – NYC’s top official overseeing career education is stepping down

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. A top Education Department official overseeing Chancellor David Banks’ signature effort to expand career education is stepping down. Jade Grieve, who was the department’s chief of student pathways and spearheaded one of Banks’ biggest initiatives, is leaving that role at the end …

Your Schools, Your Questions: WABC-TV Back to School Town Hall with Chancellor David C. Banks – September 4th at 5 PM

FYI NYCPS Send your questions! – https://abc7ny.com/post/schools-questions-wabc-tv-back-school-town-hall-chancellor-david-banks/15235901/ NEW YORK (WABC) — The new school year is upon us, as are hot-button issues including class size and cell phone bans. WABC-TV will be hosting our annual Back to School Town Hall to tackle these questions and more. No school-related topics will be off limits. Helping us answer …

NYC Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit Newsletter – 08/26/2024

Dear Fellow New Yorker,   Today, August 26, is National Women’s Equality Day, and here in New York City we are proudly building a “Women Forward NYC”, where the Adams’ administration’s goal is to make New York City the most women-forward city in the country.   This past week, Mayor Adams hosted a LGBTQ+ roundtable. …