Rise & Shine: City courted UWS parents with lie about new HS | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: City courted UWS parents with lie about new HS | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: City courted UWS parents with lie about new HS

by Philissa Cramer

• Merryl Tisch wants her Board of Regents to have final say over charter schools’ authorization. (Post)
• The city falsely told Upper West Siders that the new Frank McCourt HS would be selective. (Daily News)
• The city is beginning to implement the special education reforms announced months ago. (Times)
• The City Council heard concerns about the DOE’s space-allocation policies. (GothamSchools, NY1)
• An eighth-grader and a teacher got into a physical fight at Brooklyn’s PS 335. (Post)
• For the second time this week, a student died suddenly at school, this time at Brooklyn’s PS 396. (Post)
• After a report substantiating harassment, teachers are calling for change at Bronx Science. (Daily News)
• A coalition of foundations is adding $500 million to the federal government’s innovation funding. (AP)
• The Daily News lambastes the state teachers union’s line that charter schools haven’t helped all schools.
• Errol Louis: “The Lottery” shows that charter schools are improving education in Harlem. (Daily News)

Remainders: De-mystifying Department of Education data

by Maura Walz

• UES parents are petitioning the DOE to protest the elimination of one of P.S. 290’s kindergarten classes.
• Robert Gebeloff, the Times’s education data guru, offers advice about crunching the DOE’s numbers.
• A look inside school vending machines reveals a trove of unhealthy ingredients.
• Miss Eyre worries that she over-prepared her students for the essay section of the state ELA test.
• Members of Congress seem unenthused about Obama’s plan to tie Title I funds to common standards.
• A new report examines how charter authorizers affect schools’ autonomy.
• High school seniors should be required to complete a big project before graduating, Jay Mathews argues.
• The City Room blog has the entire report about alleged bullying in Bronx Science’s math department.
• Word in the halls is that NYC Educator is the craziest teacher at his school, and he’s okay with that.
• If you do top-notch research about teacher quality before June 1, you could win $10,000.
• More than 88 Afghani schoolgirls have been poisoned, perhaps to prevent them from going to school.