A counselor at Manhattan’s P.S. 28 says she experienced a series of severe allergic reactions to conditions at her school. A new lawsuit claims the city broke disability laws in denying a transfer.
PBS had deleted the LGBTQ history videos in response to a barrage of executive orders seeking to rid schools of “discriminatory equity ideology” and abolish DEI programs.
United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew blasted Mayor Eric Adams over the confusion, calling the shifting guidance “a selfish political ploy.”
Observers raised fears that Adams may face additional pressure to crack down on immigrants and reverberate across the nation’s largest school system.
The lawsuit claimed that some families were unable to access communications about bullying, lead contamination, special education services, and even serious medical conditions.
Exemptions to the city’s reading curriculum mandate have been awarded to schools with unusually high reading scores on state tests.
Trump’s executive order threatens to withhold federal funding from schools that support students in gender transitions or that teach about the prevalence of racism in American life.
The push to increase pay for paraprofessionals comes as UFT President Michael Mulgrew is up for re-election this year. Some educators who hope to unseat him have called attention to the issue.
Adams allocated funding in this year’s budget to add preschool special education classrooms, but he did not renew that funding for next year.
Educators are working hard to reassure anxious parents that their kids will be safe in school, but not everyone is getting the message, or reassured.