Good morning and welcome to the Tuesday edition of the New York Education newsletter. We'll take a look at the week ahead and a look back at the past week.

The Department of Education is reassigning roughly 1,000 staff members and $100 million in related resources from its Central Division and Borough-Citywide Offices to further assist schools and invest the resources they need.

The reorganization, the DOE said, will bring staff closer to the communities they serve, including deploying more than 100 social workers to district offices to help students and families, with a focus on vulnerable communities like students in temporary housing.

Schools Chancellor David Banks said his administration will “do what is best for young people at every turn.”

“As we continue the work to reimagine the education we provide, it is critical that our central and borough staff are moving closer to the communities, schools, students, and teachers they serve,” Banks said in a statement. “Our Superintendents are accountable for partnering with families and schools to meet the needs of their communities and improve the school experience of our students, and these personnel are being reassigned to support those efforts.”

The agency said that moving the central and borough staff members will help bring resources “closer to where they are needed in schools.” Support personnel, the DOE said, will be reassigned from Central School Leadership, First Deputy Chancellor, and Early Childhood Divisions, and from the Borough Citywide Offices to better support schools in collaboration with district superintendents.

Some central office staff members have expressed concerns about the reorganization, with one employee in the early childhood division saying she doesn’t know what the restructuring will lead to for her office, Chalkbeat reported.

Banks previously announced the elimination of the executive superintendent position that was established under former schools Chancellor Richard Carranza.

Classes start Thursday at city schools.

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EX-PRINCIPALS RAKE IT IN — New York Post’s Susan Edelman: “Principals ousted from schools for misconduct or incompetence often land softly in the city Department of Education bureaucracy — where they make as much money and get the same health and pension benefits as their peers who do the work of running schools. Chancellor David Banks vowed after taking over the DOE to rid the system of needless bureaucrats. But the system makes it difficult, cases show. It’s time-consuming and costly to fire a principal who won’t resign or retire — and trying to do so may backfire, insiders say. After a lengthy administrative trial, the state-appointed hearing officers who decide whether to terminate tenured DOE employees may decline to dismiss even those found guilty.”

PRINCIPALS UPSET OVER DEPARTURE OF UNION OFFICIAL — Daily News’ Michael Elsen-Rooney: “The abrupt departure of a high-ranking executive in the union representing New York City public school principals has set off a bitter war of words — with some principals accusing the union’s leadership of ‘abusive’ and ‘tyrannical’ behavior. In an email sent to the union’s entire 4,500-person membership last week, Bronx principal Michael Barakat said union president Mark Cannizzaro fired Sana Nasser, a top union executive previously in charge of direct support to members, in an ‘unceremonious and abusive manner’ and demanded a public explanation.”

UFT PREZ ON NEW NORMAL — Staten Island Advance’s Annalise Knudson: “It’s nearly the start of a new school year as New York City public school children prepare to return to campus during what the city’s teacher union president is calling the ‘next phase of the new normal.’ Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), explained during a recent interview with the Advance/SILive.com that is has become clear across the country that society will ‘live with COVID.’ ‘I know that the children, the parents and the teachers deserve to go into this year with certain things settled — and as always, the schools, the parents, the teachers and community working together,’ said Mulgrew. ‘They’ll do what they always do, which is take care of those kids.’”

UB TEACHER RESIDENCY PROGRAM REPRESENTS FUTURE — Buffalo News’ Janet Gramza: “Sydney Favors went to SUNY-Buffalo State College to study political science with the idea of becoming a prosecutor. Then, in her senior year, she had a change of heart. ‘I began to think about, ‘What if I put someone in prison unjustly?’' she said. ‘So, I decided, ‘What if I became a teacher? That way I could prevent people from going to jail.'' Favors heard the University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education was launching a year-long Teacher Residency Program to increase the ranks, diversity and retention of teachers in Buffalo amid a looming teacher shortage. She joined the pilot program weeks after graduating from Buffalo State.”

BLACK AND LATINO STUDIES NOW BARUCH MAJORS — The Ticker’s Maya Demchak-Gottlieb: “In a culmination of efforts by Baruch College faculty and students, the fall 2022 semester marks the first semester that Black and Latino Studies is an official major. The major was unanimously approved by Baruch faculty and with no objections from other CUNY colleges, The Weissman Newsletter reported. The proposal for the major was then approved by the CUNY Board of Directors and the New York State Education Department. Students can access information about the major, minor and department’s courses on the Black and Latino Studies website.”

SOUTH RIVER SCHOOLS FACTOR IN REAL ESTATE PRICE INCREASES — NJ101.5’s John Mooney: “The latest housing statistics show that the real estate market in South River is booming, fueled by young families who are eager to move to a safe, bedroom community that offers a robust pre-kindergarten program, for children ages 3-4, at no cost, borough school officials say. The latest statistics show that the listing price on South River homes has jumped more than 25% over the past 12 months, 10% higher than Middlesex County. Young families are now paying a median price of $455,000 to live in a single-family home in South River, paying over the average asking price of $440,000.”

TUITION RISES AT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES — NJ.com’s Camille Furst: “Tuition and fees are going up at 25 of the state’s 27 four-year college campuses as students return to class amid worries about inflation and other rising costs. New Jersey colleges increased tuition and fees for the 2022-2023 school year by an average of about 3%, according to an NJ Advance Media analysis of tuition rates provided by the schools. Only two of the state’s four-year colleges kept their costs the same as last year. The state’s most expensive college is Stevens Institute of Technology, a private university based in Hoboken. Annual tuition and fees will cost $58,624, a 2.99% increase over last year, school officials said.”

MURPHY BACKS BIDEN’S STUDENT LOAN PLAN — Fox News’ Danielle Wallace: “New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy touted the positives of President Biden’s student loan handout Sunday, while also admitting that higher education has gotten ‘too out of control and too out of reach.’ In an exclusive interview for ‘Fox News Sunday,’ Murphy responded to questions from host Mike Emanuel after meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on how to keep more teachers on the job post-pandemic, including increasing an apprenticeship program and incentives for teachers to come out of retirement without upsetting pensions.”

WOMEN GETTING COLLEGE DEGREES IN PRISON — Chicago Sun Times’ Anna Savchenko: “The inside of the education building at the Logan Correctional Center in central Illinois looks like a regular high school. Most classrooms are empty. But on a recent weekday, one fills up with a dozen or so incarcerated women — the first female cohort of Northwestern University’s Prison Education Program. Among them is 27-year-old Chelsea Raker, a Georgia native with tattoos running up her arms. She has one underneath her chin that says, 'Take risks and prosper.' 'I tell a lot of young people who ask me [that] it says, ‘I made bad decisions when I was 21,’ she jokes."

TEACHERS UNION USES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN LAYOFF PRACTICES — USA Today’s Alia Wong: “When thousands of Minneapolis teachers walked off the job in March, the nation was riveted. As the picketing teachers resolved their differences with the school district and finally settled on a contract, what got less attention, at least at the time, was a remarkable clause that upends hallowed seniority-based job protections.”

PERSPECTIVES: 

VOTERS AGAINST BIDEN’S STUDENT DEBT FORGIVENESS — Brad Polumbo for the Washington Examiner: “President Joe Biden is pushing through his probably illegal, definitely economically illiterate taxpayer bailout for student debt in hopes of bribing voters ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. But new surveys suggest that once Americans understand the actual implications of Biden’s plan, public support for it collapses. If you ask people if they support $10,000 in debt cancellation per borrower for people earning less than $150,000, very similar to Biden’s plan, 64% of people say yes, according to the Cato Institute’s new polling. So is Biden’s agenda popular?”

SCHOOLS COULD LEAVE TEACHER POSTS VACANT — Daily Mail’s Stewart Carr: “Schools facing a £100,000 leap in their energy bills could be forced to lay off teachers and leave vacant posts unfilled despite a national staff shortage, a concerned headteacher has warned. Some schools are reported to have set up recruitment freezes, leading to challenging workloads for remaining colleagues. The country is getting ready for a stinging 80 per cent hike in energy tariffs from October, which will affect institutions such as schools as well as homes and businesses.”

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