Success stories: Photo gallery
Following are photos from just a few of the many succcess stories in New York public education, as featured in the Oct. 4, 2007 edition of New York Teacher.
BUFFALO
Kathy Page and her third-grade class celebrate positive student behavior at School 19, Native American Magnet school in Buffalo, with certificates provided by the Buffalo Teachers Federation. The union has distributed more than 50,000 of the certificates.
Paula Prince, a ninth-grade teacher at McKinley HS,, gives Michael Vasquez, 16, a "Buffalo's Best" certificate for good behavior.
PITTSFORD
Counselor Sue Gager and students at Allen Street Elementary in Pittsford.
Pittsford TA member Eileen Reigle-Meuse welcomes students on to her bus.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Smurti Patel teaches math at Suffolk Community College, where enrollments are increasing.
NEW YORK CITY
Tenzin Kalden receives good wishes from Lia Galeano and Edward Maunzer, his college counselors at Martin Luther King Jr. Arts and Technical High. The two pushed the Tibetan immigrant to pursue a college scholarship, which he got from the United Federation of Teachers to study medicine this fall.
CITY UNIVERSITY
Maria Cornelio puts to work her life's experiences, running a translation and interpretation program at Hunter College, one of the more than 1,400 academic programs throughout the City University.
WAPPINGERS FALLS
Donna Starr teaches math at Van Wyck Junior High in Wappingers Falls, a district of first-rate schools with high-quality teachers and support staff.
Photo Credits
- Pittsford: Dennis Stierer
- Buffalo: Albert T. McCracken Jr
- Suffolk: Kevin Peterman
- New York City: Miller Photography
- City University: Gary Schoichet
- Wappingers Falls: Maria R. Bastone
"The right kind of cap." Research shows that arbitrary tax caps erode local control, dismantle strong district programs and penalize the poorest communities.
Updates
- How would a tax cap impact your school district's funding?
- NY Times: A hunger for a property-tax cap, but the teachers' union isn't feeling it
- NYSUT Testimony to the Commission on Property Tax Relief
- Lubin urges rejection of tax cap
- NYSUT activists to urge Legislature to keep the promise
- Transition in Albany raises questions on property tax cap, education endowment. Times Union
- Iannuzzi: Let's not cap our ability to end gap
- Weingarten: Our kids deserve better than cuts and caps
- County executives, Speaker Silver voice objections over tax caps. Newsday.
- Superintendent makes case for opposing tax caps. Poughkeepsie Journal.
How would a tax cap impact your school district's funding? Use this simple, handy online worksheet to find out how much your district would have already lost if a tax cap had been implemented in 2005.
Property tax caps would limit educational investment. Property tax caps have damaged public education in other states and would threaten the progress being made by New York students.
Research shows negative effects of property tax caps. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports that caps damaging to education and other public services.
Voters approve a record 95.5 percent of school budgets. Last year, New York voters acknowledged continued academic progress and generally lower property tax increases.
Success stories: Celebrating progess in public education. Scores on state math and English language arts tests have been rising, with some significant gains in historically at-risk demographics.
Success stories: Photo gallery. Good news in photos from public schools in Buffalo, Suffolk, New York City and more.
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