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In the News
Fri, 02/17/2012
Buffalo News

By Mary B. Pasciak and Tom Precious
News Staff Reporters

Every teacher in the state soon will be evaluated under a more rigorous system designed to more closely link teacher ratings to student growth on assessments and to reliable classroom observations.

Thu, 02/02/2012
WAMC

ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - New York schools could be facing a huge financial loss if an agreement is not reached on a new evaluation system for teachers and principals. The education group, the Campaign for Achievement Now, has issued a report that says schools could lose $1.7 billion dollars over two years if the new system is not in place.

Wed, 02/01/2012
New York Times

In the news on Wednesday, the tabloids continue to have a field day with the case of a teacher who has collected his $100,000-a-year salary for a decade while assigned to “rubber room”-type duty.

The case of Alan Rosenfeld, a former typing instructor, has prompted The New York Post to look more closely at the records of the case against the teacher, who was accused by six girls in junior high school “of leering at them and making inappropriate remarks.”

Tue, 01/31/2012
Wall Street Journal

AP

ALBANY, N.Y. — As some local school districts are nearing agreements with their unions to create tougher evaluations for teachers and principals, an interest group said failure to enact the new evaluations will cost schools $1.7 billion statewide.

Tue, 01/31/2012
Daily Reporter

ALBANY, N.Y. — An analysis by a school reform group says New York school districts risk losing $1.7 billion in total state and federal aid over two years if they don't agree to teacher and principal evaluations with their unions.

The New York Campaign for Achievement Now, which has ties to the charter school movement, is scheduled to release a report Tuesday that shows New York City schools would lose $592 million in total aid over the next two years.

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Meet Christina Grant

Christina Grant is the founding executive director of NYCAN: The New York Campaign for Achievement Now. Christina credits working as a paralegal for her entrance onto New York’s education scene. The students in the firm’s mock trial program convinced her to apply for Teach For America. In 2003 she became a New York City TFA corps member, and continued teaching afterwards at a KIPP school in the Bronx. Before joining NYCAN as its founding executive director, Christina worked as managing director of new site development at Teach For America, deputy director for the Office of Charter Schools at the New York City Department of Education and associate director of recruitment for Uncommon Schools.

Christina holds a bachelor’s of arts in political science and African American studies from Hofstra University, a master’s of science in teaching from Fordham University and a master’s in education with a focus on organizational leadership from Teacher’s College at Columbia University.

Christina says her work as a teacher cemented her belief that great schools change everything and her conviction that it will take great education policy to give each of New York’s children a great public school.

“It wasn’t until I became a teacher that I realized that the disparities I faced as a student play out in the lives of children in urban and rural communities throughout this country. I realized in a profound way that it wasn’t the students’ or parents’ fault that children did not achieve academically. We all work in a broken system that lets too many children down and I’m blessed to have the opportunity to spend my life’s work being a part of the solution.”

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