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

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)

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.