Remainders: Students similar, not the same at PS 194, Success
- Harlem Success serves fewer needy students overall than P.S. 194, Kim Gittleson finds.
- A new student group helped teachers test out professional development by taking part in it.
- New York RTTT roundup: Times, Daily News, Post, Gotham Gazette, oh yeah and us!
- Nelson Smith, of the national charter lobby, suggests NY charter supporters gave away too much.
- The Atlantic’s Wire blog has a rundown of different cases for the federal “teacher bailout.”
- Meanwhile, EdWeek explains that the legislation is stalled in Congress and what Obama thinks.
- Ruben Brosbe learns a smart former student’s mom forgot to fill out her middle school applications.
- New U.S. Dept of Ed data show that 2010 saw more high-poverty schools.
- The data also show a widening black-white gap in bachelor’s degrees, notes Debra Viadero at EdWeek.
- A perfectly terrible senior prank in Iowa: 14,000 cups filled with water, spelling out 2010.
- J.P. Morgan & Chase will invest $325 million in helping charter schools improve their facilities.
- To send special education students to private schools, D.C. pays more than $100k per child.
- HuffPost compiles funny answers students give on tests. (Via Joanne Jacobs.)
Five questions the new charter school law leaves unanswered
One consequence of the charter cap legislation passed in Albany today is clear: it’s now possible for 114 new charter schools to open in New York City over the next four years, more than doubling the number of charters
Race to the Top bill passes Senate, lifting charter cap to 460
Race to the Top bill passes Senate, lifting charter cap to 460
It’s over folks. The State Senate voted this afternoon to allow 260 more charter schools to open in New York State in the next four years, improving the state’s likelihood of winning Race to the Top.
The vote was 45 to 14, with a handful of senators who had been vocal opponents of charter schools swinging to the pro-charter side. Among them was Senator Bill Perkins, whose Harlem district is home to one in five of the
The vote was 45 to 14, with a handful of senators who had been vocal opponents of charter schools swinging to the pro-charter side. Among them was Senator Bill Perkins, whose Harlem district is home to one in five of the
