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Teachers Have Impact

by NYC Private Schools on March 12, 2010

Finding the best educational opportunities for a child goes well beyond choosing the NYC Private School that looks like a perfect match or the NYC Public School that has a great G&T program. A school is more than the sum of its facilities and the philosophy that is written on its homepage. A school is very much a family of dedicated officials, teachers, families and students. When looking at simple graphs of graduate profiles, it can be easy to assume that a certain school is better than others or that a specific area has a better crop of young minds. While it seems obvious, the truth is that many people don’t really consider the impact of the teachers, no matter what school they are in.

A great teacher will be a huge influence in a student’s academic career and help shape their love of learning well into the future. For some students with difficult backgrounds, a teacher may be the only person in their lives who cares and is involved with their education.

In a recent CNN article on education, former and current students rallied in support of teachers in their failing school.

93 teachers, support staff and administrators at Central Falls High School were fired for the low performance of the school, which graduated just 48 percent of its seniors last year.
Sindy Alvisures, said, “The teachers are literally like our family. When I went through high school, I went through a lot of personal problems and my teachers were always there for me.”
Of the 800 students who currently attend Central Falls, 65 percent are Hispanic; English is a second language for most. Half the students are failing every subject, with 55 percent skilled in reading and 7 percent proficient in math, officials say

As darkness fell at the school, the graduates who had come back said the problems at the school have been oversimplified and that the rest of the nation can’t understand the importance of the teachers in the tough environment they live.

So often the success and failure of students is measured in ways that don’t take the whole picture into account, and the students at this school have chosen to take a stand for those who appear to be the only educational influence in their lives.

When you and your child are researching and visiting with your potential NYC School, take special care to meet with and observe the teachers at the school. They may be the influence that changes the course of your child’s academic career.


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Finding Haitian Students a Place in NYC Schools

by NYC Private Schools on February 21, 2010

There have been so many reports and wonderful stories about courage and survival in Haiti after the devastating earthquake that many longed for the good news in stories. Many felt that the good news was found in the stories of those children who made it to NYC to live with relatives and friends and the chance that they would find within the excellent NYC educational system and the supportive framework of such a diverse city. In truth, however, the arrival of students in NYC, ready to learn or not, has proven difficult for the NYC school system to place.

The Department of Education says 219 Haitian students have enrolled in city schools since the earthquake — a process that should take five days at most.

It often takes longer for high schoolers since they have to go to an enrollment center to get placed. As a result, schools can refuse to take them for a variety of reasons, which means back to the enrollment center to start the process over.

While some people complain about the unemployment line lasting all day without yielding results, few realize that the enrollment line for schools could be the same for new students.

Chesna joined her father in New York on January 26th. But she still hasn’t started school. She waited hours in an enrollment center three times during the past three weeks before she was assigned to a school that said it had no room until next fall.

Finally, this week, a youth organizer from the Haitian organization Flanbwayan said she may have found Chesna a spot at the Emma Lazurus High School for English Language Learners in Chinatown. She plans to start on Monday. But for earthquake survivors like Chesna, getting into a school may be just the beginning.

Education is not something that should be taken for granted in any situation or anywhere, however it was a commonly held belief that a NYC student could enroll in a school to get an education, not wait in line for weeks only to be turned away and told to come back later. The children from Haiti have undergone so much that this last step, finding a place for them in our schools, should not become yet another unending obstacle for them.


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Crowding in the NYC School System

February 5, 2010

There are many factors that have gone into creating the current school availability crisis in NYC Schools and crowding in the schools seems to be one of the biggest obstacles to overcome.
Some of the reasons for availability shortages in NYC Schools are

More children. The biggest single reason is that more families are [...]

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Debate of NYC School Space Continues

December 22, 2009

The debate over using public school space for charter and private schools in NYC has been steadily building, quite literally. The NYC Public School Parents Blog carried a recent article with some very stinging arguments and points about wealthy patrons funding and creating specialty charter schools in NYC.
It appears from an article [...]

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NYC Education Lottery

September 25, 2009

NYC Students from every school type often have to deal with an element of luck in their education, but no where does that element play such an important role as it does when a lottery is called for. In New York, most of the city’s Charter Schools admit students by lottery, which leaves many students [...]

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Request Private School Materials in Summer

July 22, 2009

July and August are the right times for parents to request admissions materials from over 800 secular and religious NYC Private Schools. Requesting and looking through brochures, websites and school packages is one of the most fun aspects of the private school admissions process; it’s sort of like catalog shopping for all of the [...]

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Pre-School Prep from the Start

July 17, 2009

When people think of the frantic effort involved in getting a child into a great NYC Prep School, they are usually thinking of a high school that requires incredible test scores and a flawless academic ranking. Unless you are a NYC parent, that is. For parents with small children in New York, the [...]

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NYC Private School Admissions Acronyms

May 28, 2009

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As the season for NYC Private School Applications begins to get underway, parents inevitably start to ask about the ERB. Before we talk about some of the more detailed information about the test, here is a little background on how it got it’s commonly referred to name.
The Educational Records [...]

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Private School Size Beyond Student Teacher Ratios

May 27, 2009

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Much ado is made of the student to teacher ratios of NYC Private Schools, and the obvious benefits of a smaller class size and individualized learning plans. For many advocates of a highly specialized educational experience, the push is towards not only a smaller student teacher ratio in class size, but [...]

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Private School Accreditation Process

May 8, 2009

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Every parent has the right to know and understand a schools’ accreditation status. In addition to that, knowing who issued the accreditation and what the standards are for it should all be information that is easily accessed by interested parents and students. In the public school arena, it is [...]

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