New York City Department of Education
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The New York City Department of Education is a department of the City of New York in the State of New York, United States. The Department of Education runs almost all of the city's public schools and therefore is a school district. The department is run by the New York City School Chancellor. The current (as of 2005) chancellor of the DoE is Joel I. Klein. The department covers all five boroughs of New York City.
The New York City Department of Education is the largest school district in the United States, with over 1 million students taught throughout over 1,200 separate schools.
Each house or residential area in New York City is zoned to an elementary school and a middle school. All high schools pupils instead must complete applications to the high schools of their choice. All of Staten Island and portions of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx have zoned high schools, while Manhattan and portions of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx do not have zoned high schools.
Because of its immense size - there are more students in the system than people in eight U.S. states - the New York City public school system is the most influential in the United States. New experiments in education, text book revisions, and new teaching methods must work in New York to be viable in the rest of the country.
New York is one of seven states that mandates that Holocaust and genocide studies be taught at some point in their elementary or secondary schools' curriculum. These issues are incorporated into social studies, ethics, or literature classes in the New York City schools. Forty percent of students in the city's public school system live in households where a language other than English is spoken; one-third of all New Yorkers were born in another country. The city's Department of Education translates report cards, registration forms, systemwide alerts, and documents on health and policy initiatives for parents into Spanish, Chinese, Urdu, Russian, Bengali, Haitian Creole, Korean, and Arabic.
History
The school district was once called the New York City Board of Education. The 2003 district reorganization changed its name to the Department of Education.The city made an effort to reduce obesity and improve nutrition for the city's public schoolchildren. White bread was entirely replaced with whole wheat bread, frankfurter buns and hamburger buns in cafeterias during Mayor Michael Bloomberg's first term. In 2006 the city set out to eliminate whole milk from cafeteria lunch menus. It also took the further step of banning low-fat flavored milks, allowing only chocolate skim as an alternative, which made the new policy one of the strictest in the country. The New York City school system purchases more milk than any other in the United States. The national dairy industry aggressively fought the new standards, but ultimately lost. It was afraid that a change of policy in the nation's largest school district would ultimately reduce overall milk consumption nationally, as other large school districts looked to New York for an example. New experiments in education, text book revisions, and new teaching methods are similarly contested by national groups who view the New York City school system as a standard bearer.
Divisions
The New York City Board of Education has ten "regions".- Region 1: Bronx
- Region 2: Bronx
- Region 3: Queens
- Region 4: Queens
- Region 5: Queens
- Region 6: Brooklyn
- Region 7: Brooklyn and Staten Island
- Region 8: Brooklyn
- Region 9: Manhattan and Bronx
- Region 10: Manhattan
See also
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