Bloomberg To Teachers: No Automatic Tenure
Teachers will have to earn tenure by showing they have improved the performance of their students for two straight years and get a high rating from their principals and superintendents.
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Teachers will have to earn tenure by showing they have improved the performance of their students for two straight years and get a high rating from their principals and superintendents.
This is a decision that helps the tea party Republican who beat Lazio in the GOP primary.
The Environment and Solid Waste Committee was scheduled to consider five bills Monday that would give cities and towns greater ability to control their costs and therefore ease property taxes.
Booker appeared in Manhattan on Monday with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the "Education Nation" Summit.
With Election Day just over five weeks away, the most closely watched local race remains the one for governor. On Sunday, Republican nominee Carl Paladino was in New York city, greeting supporters in Queens.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday his endorsement for Eric Schneiderman to replace him as New York Attorney General.
The mandate is part of legislation that was approved earlier this month by a state Assembly panel. It would also require that faculty and staff be trained to recognize and handle dating violence among students.
Paterson joked that being governor is a lot like "Saturday Night Live." He says "there are a lot of characters, it's funny for 10 minutes and then you just want it to be over."
AmeriCorps is a federal service organization that runs public improvement programs around the country.
The money hasn't even arrived, but it's already creating a buzz in Newark, where three out of five third-graders can't read and write at their grade level.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the Mideast peace process in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday.
A person close to David Paterson says the New York governor will appear on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" after lambasting the show for mocking his blindness.
Strict conflict-of-interest rules make it difficult for judges to moonlight in other legal industry jobs. But Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman agreed to loosen the rules on a case-by-case basis.
A new poll finds a majority of New York voters think a planned mosque near ground zero should be moved.
The Marist College poll finds Andrew Cuomo has 52 percent of the support among those likely to vote in November, compared with 33 percent for tea party favorite Carl Paladino.
