In response to financial pressures, the New York State Assembly has created new, less-generous retirement plans for teachers. Teachers and other education employees are enrolled in one of two plans, the Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) and the New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS). How far have the benefits…

More than 60 years after the ruling in "Brown v. Board of Education" was handed down, its promise remains unfulfilled. In many respects, America's public schools continue to be "separate and unequal." Indeed, the growing resegregation of American schools by race and ethnicity, compounded by economic class segregation, has…

THE AVAILABILITY AND NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION DATA OF MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHING MANPOWER IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR 1959-60 WERE COORDINATED, TABULATED, EVALUATED, AND REPORTED. CANVASSING WAS CONDUCTED OF 1,700 DEPARTMENT CHAIRMEN AT 1,170 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES FOR (1) NAMES AND POSITIONS OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS, (2) LANGUAGES TAUGHT BY…

A New York City school superintendent is accused of pushing white educators out of the schools by harassment and intimidation and then filling their jobs on the grounds of ethnic group. (Author/WM)

This report develops proposals for improving teacher attendance, reducing expenditures for the use of substitute teachers, and for developing alternatives to hiring substitute teachers in New York City. The study was undertaken in order to find ways to reduce the magnitude of substitute teacher costs. The report identifies the types and rates of…

This report provides a budgetary perspective on public education in New York City. It presents facts and figures on the following five areas: (1) understanding the 1975-1976 cuts in the education budget, (2) pupil-staff characteristics of the New York City Public Schools, (3) pupil-teacher ratio and class size, (4) understanding the impact of the…

IN A DIALOGUE ON THE VALUE OF ESTABLISHING A CITIZENS REVIEW BOARD WHICH WOULD HAVE A VOICE IN SELECTING AND RETAINING TEACHERS IN GHETTO SCHOOLS, TWO OPPOSING VIEWS ARE STATED BY A PARENT INVOLVED IN NEW YORK CITY'S I.S. 201 SCHOOL CONTROVERSY, WHICH STIMULATED THE IDEA OF A REVIEW BOARD, AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN…

Representatives of the New York City Board of Education, the United Federation of Teachers, and the Public Education Association probe the decision making that governed the "Reduction in Force" of 16,000 New York City schoolteachers during the 1975-1977 fiscal crisis. (Editor)

This report presents projections of classroom teaching positions in kindergarten through grade 12 for regular public schools in New York State. Two basic assumptions underlying the projections of classroom teachers needed for 1992-93 through 1996-97 were: (1) the numbers of teachers in all subject areas in the base year, 1991-92, were adequate to…

New York City's publicly funded day care and Head Start systems are hindered by an inability to recruit and retain qualified teachers. Data supporting this conclusion came from a randomly drawn sample of 559 teachers working with 3- to 5-year-olds in New York City's early childhood programs. Teachers were surveyed by mail, and a subset of…

This book sets out to put the many questions raised by the selection of urban teachers into a meaningful context, and to suggest some answers. The thesis of this book is that, as quickly as possible, the process by which urban teachers are selected must be converted to a contemporary merit and fitness system. The ability to understand and reach…

"This collection of documents and analyses of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville controversy attempts to provide an accurate record of the circumstances of that confrontation." There are sections devoted to community control and decentralization in New York City, the due process issue raised by the teacher's union, and anti-semitism and racism.…