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New: A Manhattan principal showered a guidance counselor on her staff with benefits– a top rating, overtime and tenure – while they lived together with their child. Bridget Garzaniti, who makes $193,000 a year, agreed to pay a $7,500 fine. She faces no further discipline for violating conflict of interest rules.
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Unlike Nikole Hannah-Jones, who practiced what she preached about public education, Kamar Samuels, Mayor Mamdani's @DOEChancellor, sent his oldest child to The Browning School, a pricey private all-boys institution on the Upper East Side, for K to 5th grade. In 2020, Samuels transferred his son to a DOE middle school as he laid the groundwork to rise in the city system. Details:
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Not mentioned in Nikole Hannah-Jones’ bombshell piece: Current @doechancellor Kamar Samuels served as Brooklyn’s District 13 superintendent in 2019 to 2022, overseeing the middle school that the writer’s daughter complained had killed her hopes of getting into a specialized high school. Samuels also oversaw struggling PS. 307, where Hannah-Jones now regrets sending her daughter. Then-PS 307 principal, Stephanie Carroll, is now the DOE’s Director of Literacy, and the school still shows abysmal reading and math scores well below the city average.
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Nicole Hannah-Jones and @nytimes did not disclose that her husband, Faraji Hannah-Jones, sits on the. 24-member Panel for Educational Policy, and chairs the contracts commitee, which oversees millions of dollars spent by the city Department of Education.
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Not mentioned in Nikole Hannah-Jones’ bombshell piece: Current @doechancellor Kamar Samuels served as Brooklyn’s District 13 superintendent in 2019 to 2022, overseeing the middle school that the writer’s daughter complained had killed her hopes of getting into a specialized high school. Samuels also oversaw struggling PS. 307, where Hannah-Jones now regrets sending her daughter. Then-PS 307 principal, Stephanie Carroll, is now the DOE’s Director of Literacy, and the school still shows abysmal reading and math scores well below the city average.
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You'd have thought that the DOE, UFT, & everyone else would have wanted to make sure that NHJ's kid got a decent education - if only to prove that it was possible at a regular school. But no, apparently not. Comically -- tragically -- inept.
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Everyone talking about the Nikole Hannah-Jones essay should take a minute to read this @NYDNOpinions editorial on the Regents' decision to dumb down New York State diplomas nydailynews.com/2026/09/20/r…
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CNN reporter Betsy Klein was denied access at the White House on Saturday morning and her press pass was seized, one day after President Donald Trump announced that he was "banning" CNN, MS NOW and Politico. cnn.it/4cRUJpz
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New: A Brooklyn jury has ordered NYC to pay $4.15M to a 70-year-old man sexually abused at age 13 by a middle school teacher. It's the second verdict against @NYCSchools under the state Child Victims Act in less than 3 months.
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In June, another Brooklyn jury ordered the city to pay $18 million to a 66-year-old man sexually abused by his elementary-school music teacher 55 years ago. The city is appealing the "excessive" verdict.
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Justice delayed: Current NYC taxpayers socked with millions of dollars in payouts to victims of wrongdoing decades ago.
New: A Brooklyn jury has ordered NYC to pay $4.15M to a 70-year-old man sexually abused at age 13 by a middle school teacher. It's the second verdict against @NYCSchools under the state Child Victims Act in less than 3 months.
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Some New York City public school students with special needs still don't have school bus service almost one week into the school year. @DougWilliamsTV reports.
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Many NYC principals make more than $200K a year. Now they get a bonus up to $10K for complying with a state law.
"if the city asks school leaders to take on the difficult work of reorganizing programs, staffing, and scheduling to meet the class size mandate, that work and responsibility must be acknowledged” --and compensated, their union says.
New: NYC Public Schools is paying unionized principals and APs to bring more classrooms into compliance with the class size law
Principals may receive $500 this school year for each addt’l. compliant class, up to a max of $10,000, according to a memo the Daily News obtained
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New: NYC Public Schools is paying unionized principals and APs to bring more classrooms into compliance with the class size law
Principals may receive $500 this school year for each addt’l. compliant class, up to a max of $10,000, according to a memo the Daily News obtained
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