Naveed Hasan @read_naveed Twitter profile

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Naveed Hasan

7 days

New columns G - J showing projected enrollment differences for the current school year & the upcoming school year. Waiting for 2025 budget data, stay tuned... @cecd1nyc @CECDistrict2 @CEC3NYC @cec4eastharlem @CECD5_HarlemNYC @CECD6NYC @UFT @FollowCSA

School Budget Comparisons, Spring 2024

2023-03-18/2024-04-02, Enrl, 2023-06-06/2024-XX-XX DBN,School Name,2023-03-18 SY23 EOY Budget,2024-04-02 SY24 EOY Budget,EOY $ Change,EOY % Change,SY24 Projected Enrollment,SY25 Projected Enrollmen...

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

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School Budget Comparisons, Spring 2024 Compare budgets from 2023-03-18 (FY23) & 2024-04-02 (FY24). Columns C-F show grand total & change data. @cecd1nyc @CECDistrict2 @CEC3NYC @cec4eastharlem @CECD5_HarlemNYC #CEC6 @UFT @FollowCSA

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3 months

@clive174648 @planetfia He probably feeds them regularly...

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I don't accept calls from Banana.

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Pick up your phone

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@T0Paine Where's crying Lady Liberty?

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Spare a thought for the absolutely amazing journalists at the Columbia Daily Spectator, students approaching finals week also in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times on campus, publishing on an almost hourly basis this past week. @ColumbiaSpec

Homepage - Columbia Daily Spectator

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@yooty @SettleIt Oh, she knows.

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3 months

I would like to file a report: Skunk! Spotted earlier today in Bloomingdale Playground. I don't believe I've ever seen one before in Manhattan. Or honestly anywhere else in real life. How common are they in the city? Any guidance about what to do? Kids really wanted to pet it.

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@kattenbarge Here's what mine texts me:

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@guywhoiswoke This is why you always buy 2

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Naveed Hasan

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2 months

Cut out of school a little early to hang out on the the Arthur Ross Terrace for an opportunity to watch the eclipse… Thank you @AMNH for hosting thousands of people, distributing free glasses & @NASA for producing prodigious amounts of solar eclipse glasses for the masses! 🌙

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

1 month

There are more than 1,000 people here outside City Hall for the rally & @NYCCouncil hearing to uplift the needs of newly arrived Black immigrants from around the world. It's an unprecedented turnout! @Nenealamo & Afrikana, @Powermalu & Artists Athletes Activists + more represent.

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

8 months

Likely 150 out of 1,400 buildings — the count of individual schools is much higher due to co-location. But also, *only* 150 buildings? Spare a thought for a dire emergency in a single building that affects your children. No one will care. End Mayoral Control of our schools now.

Susan Sternberg

@swmstn2

8 months

@HellGateNY "Schools Chancellor David Banks insisted that 'our kids are safe,' noting that 'only' 150 out of 1,400 public schools are experiencing flooding, and just one in Brooklyn had to be evacuated after the boiler became flooded."

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@judygoldfish But the big green checkmark

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Naveed Hasan

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6 months

Dozens of adults & kids spend the morning at Robert Wagner Middle School in Manhattan baking pies — from scratch! It was such a fun experience working with little kids, among other things: making dough, cutting apples, folding pie boxes & utilizing the amazing cafeteria ovens 1/3

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

9 months

Happy first day of school, NYC public school parents! Hope everything goes smoothly... and if not, do let your parent leaders know & we will do our best to improve circumstances for all of our children. To a year of learning & love! @PS145M @DrKYSR @OuterBoroHero @tomcsheppard

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Naveed Hasan

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@danarubinstein Yikes

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

2 months

Although he is a computer scientist, @read_naveed said he'd rather keep state tests on paper for now. “You want to make sure the kids are understanding the material and not fighting the mechanism of testing.” @ByJessicaGould @NYCSchools @NYSEDNews @UFT

NYC students start taking state tests only on computers. But can they type?

The shift to computer-only exams for math and English Language Arts starts with grades 5 and 8.

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

8 months

A disaster for our new students, for whom we've been clamoring for more stability — emotional & academic support via linguistically responsive mental health services & instructional programming. Violating federal rights of homeless students & classroom disruption is unacceptable.

Gothamist

@Gothamist

8 months

Advocates say the new plan will disrupt schooling for thousands of migrant children.

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Naveed Hasan

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@itslaylas I had 6 mini fridges at one point during summer housing. Handed them out to friends come fall.

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2 months

@ettingermentum Can't we just be happy for Bonnie!?

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

5 months

Also, the burden incurred on teachers & staff that have done so much to help stabilize their classrooms so all kids feel safe & ready to learn. The ridiculous mid-school year musical chairs policy is not only cruel to new arrivals, it will cause instructional chaos for all. @UFT

Jillian Jorgensen

@Jill_Jorgensen

5 months

A lot of people engaging with my thread seem to be missing that these families can reapply for another 60-day hotel placement, meaning that, assuming they reapply, shuffling them around doesn’t really seem to save any many (and may actually incur transportation costs.)

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

5 months

The timing of this storm along with the family evictions starting today couldnt be worse for impacted parents and children. @openheartsnyc @ruth_messinger @galeabrewer @bradlander @nycpa @thenyic @UFT @RitaJosephNYC @ShahanaFromBK @b_alter @leoniehaimson @cayla_bam @AFCNewYork

Dan Mannarino

@DanMannarino

5 months

NEW: OEM commissioner @zachiscol tells me there are active plans in motion to evacuate Floyd bennet field today due to high winds from the incoming storm. @PIX11News this will be a huge effort involving busses provided by the state to a nearby school.

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

6 months

NYC DOE treats English Language Learning as a liability & services as compensatory legal requirements, maybe to be met. Instead with an asset minded view of multilingualism w/ programming permanently in place, new arrivals & all would flourish. @galeabrewer @DrKYSR @leoniehaimson

Council Member Shahana Hanif

@CMShahanaHanif

6 months

DOE also notes that a lot of the focus is on Spanish-speaking teachers, but asylum seekers come from various countries, and there is a need for teachers who speak a multitude of languages.

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

8 months

“The new sizes are 20, 23, and 25, which are fairly decently small, the kind of classes you really only find in wealthy areas outside the city or private schools,” @read_naveed said. @NYCSchools @leoniehaimson @aminsky256 @iceatwodiallo @ColumbiaSpec

NYC public schools set to begin reducing class sizes this September

NYC public schools set to begin reducing class sizes this September NYC public schools set to begin reducing class sizes this September By Aissatou Diallo. Graphics by Laya Gollamudi. September 18,...

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

8 months

DOE provided devices, including those intended to provide internet connectivity for our citywide STH community, have been disconnected from their mobile internet plan. Without warning, no more data service or tethering available, reopening the digital divide for minimal savings.

Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

11 months

@reemadamin @AGZimmerman Given we just learned that they're disconnected mobile data from student devices, which costs only $7.75 per device per month for unlimited data, this is pretty much a guarantee of "right-sizing" school budgets come January 2024.

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

5 months

Thank you, @curtisdyoung for helping coordinate us at the @elmuseo 47th Annual Three Kings Day Parade in East Harlem. I did not expect to see actual camels! Many of our public school kids from District 4, 12, 3 and beyond represent... always amazing. @ManhattanCB11 @MarkLevineNYC

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

4 months

The cost per meal is down from $1.74 to $1.20 with an average of 227k breakfasts & 567k lunches served daily. City Hall mandates drive "efficiencies" in schools & libraries, all the while spending on vendor contracts beneficial to future political fortunes are unbound by rules.

Susan Edelman

@SusanBEdelman

4 months

The mandate to spend less on lunches for kids in @nycschools is spelled out in a memo by the DOE’s Office of Food and Nutrition Services. It says the menu was “redesigned” this month “to feature products that will align with a necessitated reduced cost per meal.”

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Naveed Hasan

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5 months

On Thursday, January 11, 2024, @NYSEDNews will be hosting a public hearing on the effectiveness of mayoral control of @NYCSchools at Boys & Girls High School in Brooklyn from 6 to 9pm. @OuterBoroHero @DrKYSR @tomcsheppard @BrooklynApna @galeabrewer @UFT

Brooklyn Mayoral Control Hearing—Request to Testify

www.nysed.gov

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

6 months

Join families & leaders from across the city to call for an end to the Mayor's policy to evict new families from shelters after 60 days Children's March for our Schools Tuesday, December 19 @ 3:45pm City Hall Park @ the fountain Bring your kids & signs!

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

2 months

It would be very helpful for this effort if the city stopped forcing families with children to move every 60 days. Kids are essentially staying out of school since that policy came into effect & there are probably 1000s of newly arrived children not attending school right now...

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

10 months

"The US banned Hawaiian language ... My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school." This is a pattern of mono-culture used by dominating powers for resources (people & places) they deem economically necessary. Ōlelo Hawaiʻi is just recently starting to recover.

Silver Spook

@SilverSpookGuy

10 months

The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, let us die in Maui fires, devastated our universal healthcare, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is not a beacon, but the destroyer of independence

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Children that are locals & stable in their classes will see a rotating set of new students every few months. Their teachers will have to spend all year building rapport, again & again. No one will be able to learn with this illogical & costly policy. We cannot treat kids this way

Make the Road NY 🦋

@MaketheRoadNY

5 months

The @NYCMayor administration's 60-day shelter stay rule for asylum seekers will leave thousands of families on the street in the cold. Everyone, regardless of immigration status, deserves a safe place to sleep at night. #EndShelterEvictions for all recent arrivals.

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Naveed Hasan

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2 months

Still some time left to join us @MM_JCCManhattan Children's Clothes distribution event for students in temporary housing, refugees, new arrivals & anyone local in need. An added bonus for volunteers is getting to hold babies while mothers are shopping. It's a terrific blessing!

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Naveed Hasan

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2 months

We all had the distinct pleasure and honor of serving an Eid al-Fitr feast for newer African immigrants, led by the amazing Adama Bah, founder of Afrikana. The modest storefront operation is chock full of resources for anyone in need and was very full of joyous people today! 1/4

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

11 months

None of this is surprising - this will happen again. The contracts pipeline that repeatedly outsources core educational services among disparate, unaccountable vendors is at fault. Given our school system annual budget, we should have a world class technology operation in house.

Susan Edelman

@SusanBEdelman

11 months

About 9,000 Social Security numbers were on NYC DOE documents hacked in the MOVEit data breach, @NYCSchools ' COO @EmmaVadehra said in an email sent to staff shortly before 6 pm today. This detail was not in the press release issued a day ago.

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Naveed Hasan

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5 months

On Thursday, Jan 18, 2024, @NYSEDNews will be hosting a public hearing on the effectiveness of mayoral control of @NYCSchools at High School of Fashion Industries in Manhattan from 6 to 9pm @OuterBoroHero @DrKYSR @tomcsheppard @MarkLevineNYC @galeabrewer

Manhattan Mayoral Control Hearing—Request to Testify

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

9 months

93% of all NYC public schools are high poverty schools.

Madina Touré

@madinatoure

9 months

@DOEChancellor @BrianLehrer Banks expresses concerns about high-poverty schools not benefiting from the class size law because they have smaller classes. Asked if there's any indication legislators see it that way too and want to tweak it, he says it hasn't risen to that level yet.

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7 months

@GregGrandin Who are these Explosion Gazans

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3 months

@KiribatiGov 💀

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

5 months

On the way to Boys & Girls High School. See you there! It's time for democratically elected & empowered neighborhood school boards with authority over education budgets, administrative staffing & continuity across elections. NYC residents deserve better than Mayoral Control!

Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

5 months

On Thursday, January 11, 2024, @NYSEDNews will be hosting a public hearing on the effectiveness of mayoral control of @NYCSchools at Boys & Girls High School in Brooklyn from 6 to 9pm. @OuterBoroHero @DrKYSR @tomcsheppard @BrooklynApna @galeabrewer @UFT

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@read_naveed

9 months

This is on top of the previous Fall 2022 3% & Spring 2023 4% PEGs. Down by 20.16% in Spring 2024! Are we closing by April 2024 more than 1 out of 5 public schools (350+) that were open in September 2022? Do we destroy our future before asking a penny more from the donor class?

Ms. A

@mathnerd9130

9 months

The mayor just announced that every NYC agency needs to cut 5% now, 5% in January, and 5% in April. That is 14.27% when you do the math which is roughly 5.4 billion dollars over 8 months from just the NYCDOE alone

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Naveed Hasan

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1 month

Thank you, @NYCCouncil Member @galeabrewer for raising a major issue for which our school leaders are always held accountable: school attendance & chronic absenteeism. For this, @MTA & @NYCMayor have to make sure STH families always have their transportation needs met regularly.

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2 months

@EFF Pure insanity

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8 months

Thanks @openheartsnyc for arranging an international welcome for our refugee families at The Stratford Arms! @sara_newm , @HannahAugust & family among others who spent an hour decorating in chalk while we saw many smiling families who live here taking pictures, sharing & cheering

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Naveed Hasan

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3 months

Officials at PS 38 in East Harlem went to great lengths to get a washer & dryer for their school. They not only wash soiled clothes, but they collect apparel & jackets for kids... @MKramerTV @CBSNewYork @galeabrewer @CSD_4 @cec4eastharlem @NYCSchools @UFT

Councilwoman wants to expand laundry facilities at schools that have large numbers of students who...

The sound of clothes being cleaned in a school washing machine may be almost as important as being able to recite the ABCs, especially if you live in a shelter, according to City Councilwoman Gale...

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

6 months

Currently there is a financial incentive to create bigger classes, including in high poverty schools, otherwise school budgets don't allow for arts, music, electives or enrichment. It's economically inequitable & does a disservice to all. Public school students deserve better.

John C. Liu

@LiuNewYork

6 months

Prioritizing equity means lowering class sizes across the board so all students can have access to a sound, basic education. With over 300k students in overcrowded Title 1 classrooms, it’s time for @nycschools to stop with the excuses and get serious about lowering class sizes.

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@read_naveed

25 days

Nobody tell them about the The Core curriculum... they'll find the tunnels and look for boring machines for a month.

Jonathan Fine

@jonathanbfine

26 days

The NYPD is now claiming that the protesters were in possession of the most dangerous book in the world

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

7 months

Oh, yeah, let's blame individual principals for system wide cuts leaving them with no good choices. Real nice. How exactly can City Hall claim no excessing? Labor costs are the biggest part of a budget and even minor cuts cause staffing issues.

Susan Edelman

@SusanBEdelman

7 months

Despite looming budget cuts, City Hall said decisions on spending reductions will be made by principals, and insisted there will be “no excessing." Excessed teachers are removed from a school, but remain on the NYC payroll and have to find another job in the DOE. @ccampy

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

7 months

Can't have it both ways here: we have this school year, more than 3,000 new DOE students arriving every single month but City Hall is starting to serve families 60 day notices to "move on"... is one agency doing the work of resettling for the long term while the other unsettles??

David Giambusso

@Giambusso

7 months

“New Yorkers are voting with their feet" -- Mayor Adams on a curious spike in school enrollment that coincides with the arrival of thousands of migrant families. @ByJessicaGould reports via @gothamist

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

10 months

It's August PEP day, for those who observe. Currently in the part of the ritual where we wait an indefinite amount of time on the L while emergency breaks are sorted out somewhere on the line. Sure could use a ride right about now.

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

2 months

🚨🚨🚨 Thanks for the scam alert, @mathnerd9130 ! 🚨🚨🚨 essnyc DOT online is a phishing scam domain out of Lithuania. Do not enter your username, password or pictures of your licence (front/back) nor a selfie of you holding up your ID. Only is authentic!

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@mathnerd9130

2 months

**All NYC agencies** - Anything that seems suspect on NYCAPS when logging in please don’t fall for it. The system looks 40 years old so you may assume this may be normal - it’s phishing. Many people are accessing the site for their W2. Where is @nycschools with this info?

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@read_naveed

4 months

@ArmandDoma One would hope universal dental care is on his agenda as well.

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@read_naveed

5 months

Because at the advent if Mayoral Control in NYC in 2002, all school boards were eliminated in favor of one citywide Panel for Educational Policy. The PEP has majority mayoral appointees. Subdistrict level CECs are not school boards, just performance art.

PEP - Panel for Educational Policy

The Panel for Educational Policy, or PEP, consists of 15 appointed members and the Chancellor. Learn about the PEP members and get meeting materials.

www.schools.nyc.gov

Talia Jane ❤️‍🔥

@taliaotg

5 months

“Community education council” is just local hoity toity terminology for what most cities call school boards. Why CEC instead of the common term? No clue.

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6 months

Citywide school budget impacts FY24 Mid Year Adjustment: Compare school budgets between 2023-11-01 (pre MYA) & 2023-11-18 (post MYA). Note columns showing changes in "Fair Student Funding", "Temporary Shortfalls" & "Potential Mid Year Adj to be Repaid".

Mid Year Adjustments, Fiscal Year 2024

2024-01-28--2024-02-03 DBN,School Name,$ MYA2 Change,% MYA2 Change,City Council District,Geographic District,Space,Schoolwide Program,Location Type,Location Category,Borough,ZIP Code,Street Address...

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@read_naveed

4 months

@astro_jaz Would it be better as a large asteroid the size of a small asteroid?

San Miguel Sheriff

@SheriffAlert

4 years

Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.

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@read_naveed

8 months

Amazing student welcome committee at tonight's @cec4eastharlem monthly meeting at @PSMS206M — they greeted every single attendee & told us all about Breast Cancer Awareness! Recognizing the amazing school leaders & the nonstop work they do in the best interest of community. ❤️

@cec4EastHarlem

@cec4eastharlem

8 months

Join Wednesday, October 11th at 6 pm In Person. All welcome! P.S 112 Jose Celso Barbosa- 535 East 119 Street, Manhattan, NY 10035 Or Zoom Link: Meeting ID: 942 063 0130 Passcode: 123456

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@DougJBalloon I don't think he understands natural selection, like as a concept in biology.

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8 months

@SusanBEdelman The most stringent enforcement is applied to the bottom of the org chart. The situation is much more dynamic & flexible the higher up you go...

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@read_naveed

5 months

As we head into a weekend of rest & service, let's remember that any kindness extended to others is equally a kindness done to oneself. People living mainly in selfishness end up diminishing themselves & everyone around them with a downward spiral of hate & violence. Love more.💗

Open Hearts Initiative

@openheartsnyc

5 months

@nycpa @RitaJosephNYC @chriscquinn @WINNYC_ORG @CMShahanaHanif @AdrieneHolder @LegalAidNYC @CMPiSanchez @NYHomeless Karen Alford, @UFT : "Schools have meant stability, they have been safe havens," and the 60-day limits have put that in jeopardy

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

9 months

Huge thanks to @stbartsnyc , @openheartsnyc & @ICNY for your amazing logistics work yesterday to get @PS145M students an additional 80 backpacks to add to Assembly Member @Danny_ODonnell_ 's event at The Bloomingdale School! All the new immigrant students will be ready to learn...

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@read_naveed

4 months

Does your Mayor fight literal 3 & 4 year old toddlers for their preschool seats or do you live in a normal city?

Asad أسد 🗽🍎

@AsadFromNYC

4 months

Does the Mayor of your town get into fights with the local library system or do you live in a normal city?

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8 months

This Cat is the last remaining COBOL programmer, with lifetime job security. Who will maintain ATS afterwards? All those unpunched punchcards...

New York Times Education Pitchbot

@GreyLadiesNYC

8 months

Why Is the NYC DOE So Incredibly Bad at Everything Related to IT? This Cat, the City’s Sole Employee in Charge of Cybersecurity, SESIS, and More, May Be Part of the Problem

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@read_naveed

6 months

The majority of the members on the PEP are appointed by the mayor & never act independently, always approving whatever City Hall finds politically expedient. My role on the PEP is rendered meaningless under a rubber-stamp panel under mayoral control. @julianshenberro @ChalkbeatNY

leonie haimson

@leoniehaimson

6 months

Mayoral control came under fire at Bronx hearings. yes the headline is correct but as usual Chalkbeat omits how many people mentioned Mayor’s failure to lower class size in their remarks

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9 months

I was thrilled to find out that work has officially started on renovating a world class aquatic facility at the M045 building in East Harlem! Exciting news for our @CSD_4 students & the whole community to have a working pool again. @rivereastelem @ManhattanCB11 @cec4eastharlem

Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

10 months

I agree. Let's get to work, @NYC_SCA to renovate & reopen swimming facilities for our East Harlem public school students & community! All of our kids need to know how to swim. It's basic safety in a coastal city. @agkidsnyc @asphaltgreen @CSD_4 @cec4eastharlem @KristyDeLaCru15

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

7 months

Of all of the inequitable things, this is possibly the most pernicious. Most public schools are deeply under-resourced: budget, space, books, supplies, transportation, # of teachers, staff, service providers. Asking for unfunded support for core functions only exacerbates this.

leonie haimson

@leoniehaimson

7 months

Here’s @nycmayor today on school budget cuts: “We have to do a real evaluation on where do we have the high-need schools and we're going to be leaning into parents and parent groups to do some volunteerism.”

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8 months

How are those tent shelters holding up in this insane weather?

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The Big Book Party lived up to its name with so many books & live musical performances! Thanks to @NYCSchools , @BklynBookBodega & @ReadingPartners & all of the volunteer ambassadors for a great success, giving out thousands of books (we got 10!) to kids looking for a good read 📚

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@read_naveed

6 months

Queens needs way more school seats. SCA: exorbitant costs and 5+ year plans. Is this a functioning system for NYC? No! Queens is up next on the future of Mayoral Control, on Monday, December 18, 2023 at 6pm. Register at least 48 hours & speak in person.

Queens Mayoral Control Hearing—Request to Testify

www.nysed.gov

leonie haimson

@leoniehaimson

6 months

2873 housing units planned E.Queens & only potential school "if development leads to overcrowding" & SCA will fund it? Local schools ALREADY overcrowded with little space to lower class size. @haideechu @CMLindaLee @LiuNewYork @tobystavisky @edbraunstein

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10 months

Thank you to everyone tabling & volunteering to help hundreds of refugees & new arrival families at @TheShedNY at @_HudsonYardsNYC today! Great to meet Quincy Asian Resources Inc #QARI and see long time partners in good too.. @nypl @UshmaNeill

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@read_naveed

3 months

@aaronnarraph Allergic to winning

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10 months

@dahvnyc @JonahSchwarz_ What an unforced error. Way to tell on yourself.

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@read_naveed

9 months

"The Department of Education has yet to lay out a blueprint to guide the city’s more than 1,700 public schools on the varying needs of the newcomers, which includes 3,000** students who enrolled this summer, school officials and advocates contended." **as of September 8, 2023.

Madina Touré

@madinatoure

9 months

New York City schools started classes Thursday with 21,000 new migrant students, creating challenges for the nation’s largest district and criticism of little direction from city education leaders.

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4 months

Handwriting, esp. in early education, is visceral in a way keyboard typing is not. Pen on paper spatial relationships create memories that are not created on a screen. I have a deep concerns about a wholesale move towards computer based teaching, learning & testing in our schools

NBC News

@NBCNews

4 months

Researchers monitored the brain activity of a few dozen university students as they typed words and wrote them out. The results suggest that writing by hand may increase brain connectivity.

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7 months

“Why even put schools through that pain given that you know that students are enrolled?” Hasan said. “The budget cycle is very poorly suited toward having thousands of new students coming every month.” @GrmelaJulian @NYCComptroller @superha74 @AFCNewYork

Comptroller Calls for School Funding Changes to Accommodate Asylum Seeker Enrollments

The city’s education department insists the funding system is flexible, but the comptroller and education advocates worry some schools won’t get what they need if ‘massive numbers’ of new students...

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@read_naveed

2 months

This is even more nonsense than the other geography-based ones. Perfectly fitting!

Asad أسد 🗽🍎

@AsadFromNYC

2 months

“As I often say, Ramadan is the Eid of New York City”

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23 days

School Budget Comparisons, Spring 2024 Compare budgets from 2023-03-18 (FY23) & 2024-04-02 (FY24). Columns C-F show grand total & change data. @cecd1nyc @CECDistrict2 @CEC3NYC @cec4eastharlem @CECD5_HarlemNYC #CEC6 @UFT @FollowCSA

School Budget Comparisons, Spring 2024

2023-03-18/2024-04-02, Enrl, 2023-06-06/2024-XX-XX DBN,School Name,2023-03-18 SY23 EOY Budget,2024-04-02 SY24 EOY Budget,EOY $ Change,EOY % Change,SY24 Projected Enrollment,SY25 Projected Enrollmen...

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1 month

Hassan Naveed @hsnaveed spoke eloquently on behalf of @stophatenyc at an interfaith celebration/iftar @ the @prospectpark boathouse, w/ a beautifully diverse panel: @67ClergyCouncil , @JCRCNY , @ammwecofficial , @ICNY , @COPOUSA … This news is very disturbing.

NYC head of hate crimes prevention unit fired, plans to file discrimination claim

The director of Mayor Adams’ hate crimes prevention unit was fired from his post last week without being given reason for his dismissal — and is now planning to file a claim against city for …

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

7 months

“It creates domino effects for the teachers who’ve been doing a lot of amazing work. To be told you have to do it all over again every two months is unacceptable.” @ByJessicaGould @karen_yi @WNYC @AFCNewYork @pistnyc @openheartsnyc @ruth_messinger @galeabrewer @LindaBRosenthal

Gothamist

@Gothamist

7 months

Migrant families who've been notified that they have 60 days to leave the city’s shelter system say they’re worried their children’s education will be upended just as schools break for Christmas.

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Naveed Hasan

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8 months

It would be real nice if [Speaks in Spanish] actually got transcribed in real time... We only live in NYC, home to two and a half million people who could benefit from it. As could we all! It's a damn shame we don't have more languages front & center here. Come on!

Jose Martinez

@JMartinezNYC

8 months

[Speaks in Spanish]

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

3 months

This is how teachers get revenge on parents: send home a recorder and make kids practice them.

Andy Kim

@AndyKimNJ

3 months

I have reached another level of karma as a parent with my older kid bringing a recorder home from school and starting to play loudly at 630am. How is this song Hot Cross Buns still being taught? Surely there are new songs written for recorder in the last 3 decades.

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5 months

Hyperloop service rolled out, direct Bronx to Brooklyn connection.

Cynthia ✪

@cynthia4nyc

5 months

the @MTA beta app is struggling with mapping the emergency rerouting. me too babe, me too.

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

6 months

@emmagf Our school had 120 students on the 3K wait list. Only 15 seats...

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1 month

Thank you @CMShahanaHanif & so many other @NYCCouncil members for hosting families for an Eid al-Fitr celebration in the City Hall Council Chambers! As always, the children shine: Millenium Brooklyn HS MSA showing the way to all of the adults & @munanational1 kids performing 1/2

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7 months

After more than 5 years of volunteering as an elected public school parent in a system with very concentrated household poverty, it's extremely gratifying to be at a panel about the issues American parents deal with daily. @CUNY

University of Michigan Poverty Solutions

@UmichPoverty

7 months

Panelists include @UmichPoverty Director @profshaefer , Nobel Prize laureate @paulkrugman , social activist Holly Fogle, and award-winning journalist @Maria_Hinojosa . Hosted by Jeffrey Madrick and @CarolJenkins .

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@read_naveed

11 days

An amazing showing by the kids of D6 at the 6th annual United at the Palace — returning after a 5 year hiatus & what a spectacular performance by so many students: instruments, dance, song, costumes, the pageantry! You can see a diverse community pack the house with joy. 😍 #CEC6

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Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

10 months

I agree. Let's get to work, @NYC_SCA to renovate & reopen swimming facilities for our East Harlem public school students & community! All of our kids need to know how to swim. It's basic safety in a coastal city. @agkidsnyc @asphaltgreen @CSD_4 @cec4eastharlem @KristyDeLaCru15

Carrie Melago

@carriemelago

10 months

"The United States can build a culture of swimming instead of one of drowning."

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3 months

Hooray! The entire reasoning & process by which menu items were removed was very confusing. The kids will be so happy, especially for the Halal chicken patties, whose absence would have been particularly glaring this coming month.

Jillian Jorgensen

@Jill_Jorgensen

3 months

scoop: The city says it’s bringing back many of the popular school food items it cut from menus this winter, including chicken dumplings, bean and cheese burritos, chicken tenders and French toast sticks. Comes after criticism of the cuts and of the city’s explanations for them.

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3 months

@BirdCentralPark

Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle Owl, Has Died

New York City, Feb. 23, 2024 – The following statement was released by Central Park Zoo: We are saddened to report that Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl discovered missing from the Central Park Zoo...

newsroom.wcs.org

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Naveed Hasan

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8 months

Says state test scores are not directly comparable. Proceeds to directly compare them. So much energy is expended on this creating a strong incentive to play games every year or so... making this an exercise in futility & huge waste of resources. There's gotta be a better way.

Susan Edelman

@SusanBEdelman

8 months

The finally released 2023 NY test scores in grades 3 to 8 are NOT "directly comparable" to 2022, the DOE admits. But it still claims "an impressive upward trajectory." ELA scores rose from 49% to 51.7%, math scores from 37.9% to 49.9%.

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9 months

In service to others, we find ourselves. There is no greater loss than a life spent not knowing a different mindset, another way. Build strength by learning from diverse experiences of people. A society based on mutual respect & support will lack for nothing. @PS145M @thenyic

Arun Venugopal

@arunNYC

9 months

Amazing work by NYC public school parents: "they started helping wash migrant students’ laundry and successfully petitioned the education department to install laundry machines at the school itself." Great story by @ByJessicaGould

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9 months

I can't describe how happy I was to attend the ribbon cutting of @SGL378 IB World School Middle Years Program! All NYC public schools should be multicultural & multilingual for all kids — a break from the dominant mode. I will be back! @AMGraceLee @MBPMarkLevine @galeabrewer

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8 months

It also does not consider whether these classes are being held in suitable spaces in the schools & buildings in which they are housed. Every school has Over Cap classes. 93% of all public schools are high poverty schools. Learning improves for all with more qualified attention.

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11 months

@DougJBalloon "Maverick" is one way to describe reckless indifference to engineering safety.

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@read_naveed

5 months

@katie_honan They're to prevent government officials from driving their cars down the sidewalk. Think natural bollards.

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6 months

to bake 120 pies at a time! The whole place smelled heavenly & we were able to send all of these pies to local shelters. This was all possible thanks the the amazing efforts & organization of @ProjectRousseau . They have been instrumental in providing pro bono legal services 2/3

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8 months

Before 2am, another technical forecast service (can't find the post) showed this as the predicted local maximum rainfall for Friday, which has been surpassed at JFK & possibly in more locations already. No big surprises what happened today in NYC if you are paid to pay attention.

Naveed Hasan

@read_naveed

8 months

@nymetrowx Nine inches?

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2 months

@LtLexay @T0Paine Deplorable

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“I don’t want to be told by the administration” that families evicted from their shelters under the 60-day rule “can live anywhere,” said @galeabrewer . “They can’t.” @MichaelElsenRoo @ChalkbeatNY @YDMA_PS242 @AFCNewYork @NYCSchools @thenyic @UFT @MTA

Homeless NYC students’ parents are entitled to free MetroCards. Getting them can be hard.

Delays in getting free 30-day MetroCards to schools and then homeless families have hurt attendance at several Manhattan schools, according to a survey. Some families have resorted to hopping...

www.chalkbeat.org

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@read_naveed

4 months

What are these cuts? Who knows, not even your NYC Panel for Educational Policy. Thanks for nothing, @GovKathyHochul . @DrKYSR @tomcsheppard @OuterBoroHero @bradhoylman @graceleefornyc @LindaBRosenthal @Danny_ODonnell_ @LiuNewYork @RitaJosephNYC @SenatorRJackson @CarlHeastie @UFT

Michael Elsen-Rooney

@MichaelElsenRoo

4 months

Cuts to @NYCSchools aren't as steep as the ones in November, but still total >$100 million next year. That includes $50 million more in cuts to Pre-K/3-K by eliminating unfilled seats.

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4 months

What kind of reasoning is this — what about all 107 mayors before that? Perhaps these people should have taken logic & rhetoric classes before making such spurious arguments. There are no merits to one-man rule over $38 billion annually. End it. @Columbia @ColumbiaSpec @bwog

Joseph Spector

@JoeSpectorNY

4 months

Hochul proposes to extend mayoral control for another four years, saying it has been "granted to every mayor since the year 2002" Background here, via @madinatoure :

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