Rise & Shine: With closures on hold, school space is extra tight
- It’s not clear whether the idea of tenure for teachers will weather the teacher quality push. (NPR)
- With school closures on hold, some of the city’s new schools are still without homes. (Daily News)
- A building that houses four schools in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy lacks a shared library. (Daily News)
- Students at PS 47 in the Bronx are finally playing on the playground they helped design. (NY1)
- Students from Astor Collegiate Academy took a school trip to European cities. (Bronx Times-Reporter)
- Bankers visited city schools this week to teach students about money management. (Daily News)
- The head of Explore charter schools explains why the proposed state budget hurts charters most. (Post)
- The Post says Merryl Tisch should prove she supports charter schools, rather than limiting them.
- A Rhode Island teachers union is suing over Central Falls’ move to fire all its high school teachers. (AP)
- Arizona is pushing schools to remove teachers who speak English with an accent. (Wall Street Journal)
- Denver is banning teachers from taking work trips to Arizona because of its immigration law. (AP)
- D.C. is on the verge of announcing a budget to fund its new teachers contract. (Washington Post)
Remainders: Older charter schools have lower transfer rates
- After a rough start at public elementary schools, a novelist found her place at Hunter College HS.
- City Limits looks at Bloomberg’s cash rewards program and its unclear future.
- A Bronx charter school student’s mother claims the school hasn’t provided needed special ed services.
- Analyzing charter schools’ transfer rates, Kim Gittleson finds they go down as schools grow up.
- James Merriman suggests questions he thinks should have been asked at the Perkins charter hearings.
- Charter advocate Peter Murphy responds to the state teachers union’s report on charter schools.
- InsideSchools reports that six percent of the city’s 9th graders applied to different high schools.
- The NYTimes’ Robert Gebeloff answers more questions about the state tests and students’ results.
- Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow attended a benefit for a program that brings yoga into NYC public schools.
- Improving the school calendar could cut down on teacher absenteeism, Forrest Hinton writes.
- A teacher questions the wisdom of the city’s new strategy for educating kids with special needs.
- A New Jersey principal is asking his middle schoolers’ parents to ban social networking sites at home.
- Rated unsatisfactory three times, a teacher believes he’s kept in the school as an example.
- If Chancellor Joel Klein were to leave his job, very little would change, writes a UFT member.
- And Ugandan schoolchildren answer how they would spend $50, the cost of a year’s tuition there.