- 15 states (plus DC) have made it to the Race to the Top finals, but only a handful will win.
- New York is among the finalists, but Mayor Bloomberg said being a finalist isn’t good enough.
- Peter Murphy imagines a worst-case-scenario: NY wins RttT, but with so little money, it can’t do much.
- The number of semi-finalists was both tough and fair says Education Sector’s Chad Aldeman.
- Of the states that got Gates Foundation RttT planning grants, most made it into the finals.
- Every school bus trip costs $19, while the city and state pay pennies for students to get free metro cards.
- Some city schools were mistakenly told they were failing and, of them, many are being closed.
- Charter school teachers who backed the union’s RttT bill were applauded at a union meeting.
- A recent LaGuardia High School grad is starting a music program at his little sister’s school.
- Teachers in NY and CA echoed the Gates teacher study findings on the Takeaway.
- Teachers union caucus New Action lists all the reasons its different from everyone else at the UFT.