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6 More Schools Fail The State’s Passing Grade.. 4 Others Get Passing Grade

The New York State Education Department has identified six New York City public schools, five of them middle schools, as performing so poorly that they are at risk of being shut down. Four others, the state said, would have been added to the list had the city not already decided to close them.

Four city schools, the state said, improved enough to come off the list, bringing the total citywide to 32. Of those, the city has already decided to close five.

To be designated by the state as failing, or among the “Schools Under Registration Review,” a school must fail to meet very basic, rudimentary performance benchmarks. If it does not improve in three years, it risks being shuttered.

The SURR list [pdf], as it is known, is different and much more dire than the list of schools designed as failing under the No Child Left Behind Law, which considers not only basic test scores but also other factors, like attendance and the performance among different subgroups of students (those who are Black or Hispanic, for example).

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Bronx School Used As Expense Source By 2 Employees 

February 6, 2008

Two Department of Education employees used their Bronx elementary school like a bottomless ATM - stealing more than $200,000 over three years, investigators charged yesterday.

Brazen PS 132 secretaries Karen Boucher, 39, of upstate Pomona, and Renee Scriven, 55, of Hackensack, NJ, spent their haul on the lavish - including a diamond ring, digital cameras and a portable DVD player - and such mundane items as cigarettes and beer, school investigators charge.

Included among the items purchased by the secretaries between October 2002 and November 2005 were Easter outfits for plastic geese, “Best Grandma Ever” T-shirts, and a doormat that read, “Boucher’s Bungalow.”

Boxes of Marlboro Lights cigarettes and 12-ounce cans of Coors Light beer also surfaced amid the shameless shopping spree.

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