Remainders:Mary J. Blige & others save Harlem School of the Arts | GothamSchools

Remainders:Mary J. Blige & others save Harlem School of the Arts | GothamSchools

Remainders:Mary J. Blige & others save Harlem School of the Arts

by Anna Phillips

• Councilwoman Inez Dickens told students to skip school and attend Perkins’ charter school hearing.
• The Harlem School of the Arts is getting a second chance, private donations, and a reorganization.
• At least of that money is will come from Mary J. Blige.
• New York State could get nearly $1.5 billion if Sen. Harkin’s education jobs bill passes.
• Reporting a story on I.S. 237 students’ film, a NYTimes writer becomes part of the story.
• Rather than dismissing problems with value-added, supporters need to address them, writes Rick Hess.
• Charter Revision Commission should make the DOE a city agency, says Adrienne Kivelson.
• Parents are having a hard time finding out whether their children made the gifted & talented cut.
• Allowing alt cert. programs to create masters programs de-professsionalizes teaching, a blogger writes.
• Corey Bunje Bower: giving alt cert performs this right could be a “troubling precedent.”
• Norm Scott reads parents’ district-to-charter conversion stories as an indictment of Klein.
• Unusually high attrition and a clerical error have complicated admissions at two high schools.
• Columbia University will give Klein an honorary degree on commencement day.
• Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is holding a forum on school overcrowding.
• Looking at NAEP scores, Jay Mathews says teacher layoffs may not impact learning all that much.
• Cleveland gave layoff notices to 800 school employees yesterday, 500 of them teachers.
• A 26-year old Baltimore special education lawsuit finally came to an end on Monday.
• And RttT reviewers offer some insight into what irritated them the first go around.