NYC Teaching Fellows

Blogs
May 6, 2010
Mike Bloomberg's Proposed Budget Slashes Teachers, Yet Still Pays to Recruit New Ones
Faisal Shahzad may have inadvertently saved the jobs of a 1,000 cops in Mayor Mike Bloomberg's budget proposal, but nothing apparently could be done to save the jobs of 6,400 city teachers...Not even letting go of the $5 million dollars budgeted for new teacher recruitment. Yes, that's right ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2009
In Reversal, New York Gets Stimulus Money for Cops
Earlier in the week the Feds said they weren't giving New York stimulus money for cops because our crime rate was already low. This sort of echoed fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin's argument that the New York City Teaching Fellows program shouldn't get any more money because it was already doi ... More >>
News
July 28, 2009
How AmeriCorps Led to Obama's First Scandal
How a cash voucher for city teaching students hurt the President
Blogs
July 28, 2009
This Week in the Voice
School's Out! But the Voice Educational Supplement is in session. When cops made a bogus bust on 32 teens from Bushwick Community High, the kids kept their cool -- and won their case against the NYPD. Why? Because they'd been trained how to respond to police overreach and entrapment by their ... More >>
Art
July 24, 2007
Your Own Personal Blackboard Jungle
Fresh from the frontlines, New York Teaching Fellows tell all