Rise & Shine: Charter schools’ political entanglements deepen | GothamSchools
Rise & Shine: Charter schools’ political entanglements deepen | GothamSchools
- The documentary about the rubber rooms for reassigned teachers comes out next month. (Post)
- The fight over charter schools is heating up, and political money is playing a big role. (Crain’s NY)
- The charter school State Sen. Malcolm Smith founded moved onto a donor’s land. (Daily News)
- Conditions at the school, Peninsula Prep, are subpar, without plans for improvement. (Daily News)
- A student who says the principal at NEST+m tried to have him arrested wrongfully is suing. (Post)
- More minorities were accepted to the city’s gifted kindergartens. (GothamSchools, Post, Daily News)
- Translators are key at parent conferences at Stuyvesant, where most students are Asian. (Times)
- Students at Brooklyn’s PS 269 forwent a bake sale to run laps for Haiti relief. (Daily News, NY1)
- Conservative columnist Andrea Peyser: New bake sale rules were devised by “demonic nannies.” (Post)
- A psychologist at Staten Island’s IS 72 was arrested for inappropriate sexual behavior. (Daily News)
- The Times says charter schools’ teacher evaluation systems are worth emulating.
- Nonprofits, including those working on education, are expecting a bad budget year. (Times)
- With budgets declining, states are having trouble coming through on their education vows. (NPR)
- Albany is cutting teachers after losing enrollment to charter schools. (Albany Times Union)
- D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee has hired a Democratic party image consultant. (Washington Post)
- Rhee isn’t rebuilding several decrepit schools as promised because of money woes. (Washington Post)
- The Wall Street Journal says choice and accountability, not standards, are the best education tools.
- In letters to the editor, readers tell the Times their thoughts on the push toward national standards.
- Chester Finn argues that American kids should go to school on Saturdays, too. (Wall Street Journal)
