City argues Brooklyn charter school should be shut this year
City officials made the case today that a Brooklyn charter school should be the first to close before its charter expires.
East New York Preparatory Charter School was the subject of oral arguments today, as the school’s brand new board members tried to convince Department of Education officials to keep it open and officials from the charter school office argued for its closure.
Accused by both the city and state of egregious mismanagement, the school’s principal Sheila Joseph is alleged to have pushed students with low test scores out of the school, given herself a significant raise, and created an environment so unstable that Teach for America is threatening to pull all six of its members out
Remainders: No “hitbacks” in this class, please
- Diane Ravitch, speaking on Morning Joe, said that education cuts will be “devastating.”
- Morning Joe also hosted Bill Perkins, who defended his opposition to charter schools.
- NPR gets the prize for most irreverent coverage of the bake sale ban.
- Kevin Carey: it’s okay for Ravitch to be wrong about some things, but not to say “everything” was wrong.
- A teacher shares his philosophy for keeping the “dreaded hitback” out of his classroom.
- Budget crises are forcing states to dial back on education measures they can no longer afford.
- Sherman Dorn says the federal government needs to be more humble about turnaround schools’ success
- Arthur Goldstein finds that his Chinese parents’ expectations from school give him culture shock.
- Goldstein, who is also a candidate on the ICE ticket for UFT elections, reminds teachers to vote.
- Charters spend a greater share of their budgets on teachers than the DOE does, Kim Gittleson finds.
- Peter Murphy argues that NYSUT abandoned its members who teach at Albany’s New Covenant charter.
- Some California students argue that their schools are unfairly labeled as “failing.”
- Illinois teachers wore pink to work today, to show support for their colleagues who just received pink slips.