Rise & Shine: Much-hyped MS science funding cut after 2 years | GothamSchools
Rise & Shine: Much-hyped MS science funding cut after 2 years | GothamSchools
- The city spiked a 2-year-old middle school science program, saying it can’t be replicated. (Daily News)
- Thousands of immigrant students aren’t getting the language help they’re legally entitled to. (Post)
- More than 40 percent of Manhattan schools are highly overcrowded, a new survey argues. (Daily News)
- Topping the list of overcrowded schools is PS 3 in Greenwich Village. (Daily News)
- A student at Paul Robeson HS says she wishes the city could just close the school already. (Post)
- SUNY’s Charter Schools Institute should be protected from budget cuts, its head argues. (Daily News)
- Crain’s NY says teachers unions can work out the details later on Race to the Top-induced changes.
- An economist says teachers’ in New York receive salaries and benefits that are crippling the state. (Post)
- An assistant principal at Brooklyn’s Clara Barton HS was arrested on animal cruelty charges. (Post)
- The city will open a new elementary school in Queens early to beat overcrowding. (Daily News)
- A student stabbed at his Bronx school is suing, saying a security guard didn’t protect him. (Daily News)
- Three city music teachers who met at Teachers College are striking out as an act of their own. (NY1)
- The Wall Street Journal ask why school districts, including in NY, keep hiring when enrollments fall.
- The Daily News says New York City should adopt elements of D.C.’s new teachers contract.
- D.C. officials say they’re pleased by the cash-for-grades experiment results there. (Washington Post)
- Australian teachers are refusing to administer tests that will be used to rank schools. (The Australian)
