SchoolBook: City's Struggling Schools List Grows to 47

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The list of schools the city could begin closing next year swelled on Wednesday to 47, from 20, after the city’s Department of Education added high schools, charter schools and more middle schools to the list. Though this list is generated annually and eventually narrowed to the schools the city fully intends to close, its release this early in the <a href="http://www.hotsalekey.com/Whole-Sales-Importers-Exporters.php?id=32"><strong>Excess Inventory on sales</strong></a> year puts parents, school staffs and students on notice. For five schools, it is a second notice, NY1 reported. They were on last year’s “struggling” schools list, as well. And as many news organizations noted Thursday, the city’s “hit list” (that is the New York Post’s term) includes three schools that are in their first year of a multimillion-dollar federal grant program. Last year, the Department of Education identified 47 schools as struggling, and by the year’s end officials voted to close 27 schools, not all of which were on the original list. In other news, Juan Gonzalez of The Daily News writes in a column that for years before the city discovered toxins at Public School 51 in the Bronx, students complained of illnesses and school nurses cataloged them. He reports: Records obtained by The Daily News under the Freedom of Information law show that since 2005 nurses at the Bronx New School logged cases of kids suffering headaches, vomiting, abnormal gaits or even seizures nearly every month. In May 2007, 16 students vomited at the Jerome Avenue school, records show. During one spell in November 2010, nurses listed five cases of students with heart "palpitations." And in the late 1990s, one student suddenly died of kidney failure. "There was obviously something wrong in that building," said one veteran school nurse who reviewed the records. Winnie Hu writes in The New York Times on Thursday that in some school districts in New Jersey and Connecticut, schools are still closed because of power failures that resulted from last week’s snowstorm. She writes: In nearby Teaneck, where schools in the 4,500-student district will remain closed at least through Thursday because of concerns about hazardous road conditions, officials are considering adding days in June. And in Connecticut, where dozens of schools hit hard have been closed all week, the Weston district has already used nine snow days — including four after Tropical Storm Irene delayed the start of classes — and may have to take back days from spring break if snow forces more closings. For more education news, see GothamSchools’ morning roundup. Here is what is coming up on Thursday: More than 1,000 city schoolchildren and Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott will be off and running at 10 a.m. in Central Park in the Chancellor’s Run With Champions, an annual event to kick off the New York City Marathon weekend. The runners, who are expected to be cheered on by some well-known adult marathoners, will <a href="http://dvd-copy-dvd-clone-dvd-burn-dvd-backup.tomp4.com"><strong>Backup DVD Movies</strong></a> line up at the 72nd Street transverse, north of the band shell. Teachers will again have the chance to learn about healthy eating habits from the Food Bank For New York City at its annual daylong nutrition education training program for CookShop. A session on Oct. 22 drew more than 1,000 teachers, the group reports, and Thursday’s makeup session will include 450 teachers. “Waiting for Superman” was just the start of a trend of films focused on education. Two new films premiere in New York on Thursday. “Parent Power” is a documentary that “chronicles the historic rise of New York City's public education organizing movement from a small group of parents who organized around a single school in the Bronx, to the broad coalition of thousands of African-American and Latino activists today who have won victories to improve education in New York over the past 15 years.” You can find a trailer here. According to the news release, “the film was produced by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University in collaboration with FPS Video Productions, and will be distributed around the country following the premiere” — which is at the Cantor Film Center of New York University, 36 East Eighth Street, Manhattan, at 6 p.m. Another documentary, “Mitchell 20: Teacher Quality Is the Answer,” will also open in New York. The news release says, “This compelling documentary depicts the heroic story of 20 teachers taking a stand about the one thing they have control of — the quality of their teaching.” “Mitchell 20,” which follows teachers in Arizona and has been playing in Phoenix, “paints a distressing picture of the realities of teaching in America today.” You can catch it at the AMC Empire 25 through Nov. 10. On the Learning Network, Thursday’s question for students is: What Causes Should Philanthropic Groups Finance?, <a href="http://www.hotsalekey.com/Whole-Sales-Importers-Exporters.php?id=2"><strong>Food & Beverage on sales</strong></a> in response to this article in Wednesday’s Giving section.