As a point of comparison, they said the city had spent $13.3 million this year on new math and English materials and on books for classroom libraries.
According to a union survey in mid-September, 78 percent of schools that responded said they did not have all of their English materials; 64 percent reported missing math materials.
A month into the school year, teachers in New York City's public schools are pushing on despite missing important new math and English materials that were ordered in the spring to match the tougher Common Core learning standards taking root across the country.
One was the high quality of English materials, which was described by two participants in earth sciences (participants 5 and 6) in terms of the abundance of high-quality graphics as well as the extensiveness, comprehensiveness, and logical presentation of the information.
Instead of following the traditional practice of translating their English materials into Spanish, for example, they employed what they called "versioning", or creating parallel sets of materials that conveyed the same content and messages in culturally and linguistically relevant ways.
A native Gujarati speaker, who is fluent in English, translated English materials into Gujarati.
