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...organization called Good Shepherd Services. Every New York transfer school and YABC is paired with a community-based organization that focuses on the social, emotional and family issues that tend to weigh down these students. "We don't have the expertise for these complex challenges," explains schools chancellor Joel Klein, who heads the New York City Department of Education. The academic staff is also enthusiastic about the partnership. "Teachers can focus on the best way to educate students," says South Brooklyn's principal, Vanda Belusic-Vollor. "That's huge...
...Klein plans to greatly expand the number of transfer schools and YABCS over the remaining 2 1/2 years of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration. Replicating successful programs is always tricky, but in this case there's a peculiar obstacle. Under state- and federal-accountability rules, schools full of students who don't graduate on time are labeled failing. By that definition, YABCS and transfer schools fail no matter how brilliant a job they are doing. "It's hard to get partners to invest and hard to attract strong leaders when the school is labeled failing," says Hamilton...
...become overage and undercredited had to repeat freshman year. One key is improving reading skills in middle school--a challenge nationally. Last year 37% of the city's eighth-graders were proficient in reading, up from 30% in 2002 but still a long way from ideal. Another key, Klein believes, is continuing to replace big, impersonal high schools with smaller schools that offer a sense of community and a variety of programs. Says Klein: "You want to create a really robust set of options...
...Wayward Regime Joe Klein says it all about Bush and his arrogant, incompetent and cynical Administration [April 16]. It's a wonder how the U.S. Congress has not made a move to impeach him for his sins against the American people. There seems to be a double standard in how they impeached Bill Clinton for his sexual pecadillo, which resulted in not one death, while Bush, whose lies sent over 3,000 Americans to their graves and imperiled the peace and stability of the world, remains free from the threat of impeachment. How can Congress let his many impeachable offenses...
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