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August 7, 2013

A packed calendar for test score announcement day

Around 9:30 a.m., test score data will go up on the State Education Department’s website. You’ll be able to find it here. At 10…
New York
July 13, 2013

The chancellors club

From Chancellor Dennis Walcott’s public schedule for Sunday: 10:30 A.M.Participates in Panel Discussion with Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and LAUSD…
New York
July 2, 2013

Hungry just thinking about it

What Chancellor Dennis Walcott is doing today, according to his public schedule: 11:45 A.M. Joins French Junior Minister of Food Industry Guillaume Garot’s First Visit…
New York
June 5, 2013

On Thursday, Walcott will open doors

Per the public schedule put out by the Department of Education, Chancellor Walcott is scheduled to appear with Mayor Bloomberg at the ribbon-cutting for the…
New York
June 3, 2013

Tuesday is a busy day for Chancellor Walcott

Per his official city schedule: First he’s testifying at the City Council’s hearing on the Department of Education’s proposed budget. Then he’ll join Mayor Bloomberg…
New York
June 2, 2013

On the first day after evaluations weekend:

Chancellor Dennis Walcott will attend the fourth annual Paralympic Sport Club New York Youth Track and Field Open on Randall’s Island, per a Department of…
New York
May 20, 2013

Anti-hate crime initiative new addition to day’s schedule

The city just updated Chancellor Dennis Walcott’s schedule to reflect a noon press conference with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to announce an anti-hate crime…
New York
May 17, 2013

On Saturday, Chancellor Walcott to give a “major speech”

Per the Department of Education’s advisory, Walcott talk at this year’s citywide principals conference will amount to a “major speech.” Two years ago at the…
New York
May 15, 2013

Chancellor Walcott goes to Staten Island

He’ll be touring the Doctor’s Hospital site, which will be the new home of P.S. 48 this fall after closing to patients in 2003.  From…
New York
May 13, 2013

Walcott heads to District 12

From our inbox: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:00 P.M.Attends District 12 Town Hall MeetingPS 47 John Randolph1794 East…
New York
May 10, 2013

On Saturday, Chancellor Walcott be honored

From our inbox: Saturday, May 11, 201310:00 A.M.Receives Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the University of Bridgeport’s 103rd Commencement Webster Bank Arena…
New York
June 7, 2012

Drum circles, Common Core on teachers' training day agenda

While students protested against testing and basked in the late-spring sun, educators across the city hunkered down to prepare for next year. The first Thursday of June is a mandatory training day for city teachers. Hiring committees were set to meet at some schools up for "turnaround" overhauls, teachers offered voluntary tutoring sessions for high schoolers scheduled to take Regents exams next week, and some departments took educational field trips, according to GothamSchools readers who reached out to let us know how they were spending the day formerly known as Brooklyn-Queens Day. Here are some of the responses we got on Twitter when we asked city teachers how they were spending the training day: