The "PS" in this public school should stand for "parent support." Going way beyond bake sales, the PTA at PS 9, the Sarah Anderson School on the Upper West Side, has raised enough money to pay for 33 teacher aides -- more than in any other school, the Department of Education says. Full Story »
Posted by Jon Mitchell
Potentially interesting story here, but it's too brief and shallow to really get to the bottom of it. At first, it seems to be praising this PTA for going above and beyond to support their school, but the last two sentences of the article mention a potential ethical problem with this practice, on which "The Post" apparently "reported," but Edelman doesn't provide us with a link so we can see what the deal is.
This article is so short, and so much relevant information is missing from it. It seems almost like a PR piece for PS9's PTA, which is an odd tone for a news article to have. The reporter seems to be unaware that schools with the highest SES (socio-economic status) populations tend to have extra resources to hire staff like teacher aides, which schools in low SES districts don't have; this story doesn't provide a worthwhile news angle from which to understand this issue.
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