As the storm of controversy surrounding New York City charter schools continues to brew, special education has emerged as a particularly contentious issue.
As Congress considers President Barack Obama’s plan to expand federal aid for higher education, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes sat down Tuesday afternoon for a live Web chat to talk about the proposed legislation.
David Harris Cohen, former vice president and dean of the faculty for Arts and Sciences is the provost of University of the People, a new, tuition-free online institution that opened its virtual doors this past September.
When Silvia Puma, CC ’10 and Anna Newman, BC ’12—coordinators of the Community Impact group Student Health Outreach—asked a group of local middle school students what being healthy meant, the results astounded them.
The elimination of free student MetroCards was voted through last month by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is scrambling to eliminate a $383 million shortfall in its budget. The cuts have ignited furious protest from local parents, students, school administrators and city politicians.
Some adversaries of the charter school movement argue that low teacher-to-student ratios in charters hurt the traditional public schools they often outperform.
