Remainders: Four ways to do layoffs, and no clear favorites
- Ruben Brosbe uses basic math to show that his students have spent many hours taking tests recently.
- Charter school funding is rising while other school budgets are falling; both have growing enrollment.
- The City Council passed a resolution requiring the city to try to fix schools instead of closing them.
- Eight hundred Insideschools readers are evenly split on four different ways to carry out layoffs.
- Two East Village moms propose letting schools that reduce their energy consumption keep the savings.
- Speaking at a fundraiser for Jewish education, Chancellor Klein described his recent visit to Jerusalem.
- Controversially, a Brooklyn charter school chain is offering students $100 to get friends to apply.
- Figuring out who decides what qualifies as passing on state tests is an essential task, Fred Smith argues.
- For the first time ever, the federal government is funding successful charter school replication.
- Eduwonk hears that there could be only 70 USDOE innovation fund winners, from 1,669 applications.
- Arne Duncan says he supports Tom Harkin’s education jobs bill, but the White House isn’t sure it does.
- Rick Hess doesn’t think much of a California congresswoman’s idea for funding school improvement
No charter cap deal today; teacher eval bill’s fate also unclear
There won’t be a deal to allow more charter schools in New York today, either, our sources on the train back from Albany report.
That leaves tomorrow and Friday for lawmakers to figure out a way to boost the state’s chances in the Race to the Top competition — without throwing away their concerns with charter schools. The final deadline for submitting an application is June 1, next Tuesday. Lawmakers have Monday off for Memorial Day.
As the deadline nears, a standoff is developing between the state Senate and the Assembly. Each chamber has passed its own legislation tied to Race to the Top: The state Senate already passed a bill that would raise the
Door to door in Crown Heights with a charter school foot soldier
George Banning canvasses for charter school advocates in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.As next week’s Race to the Top deadline approaches, pro-charter advocates are marshaling all their resources to lift the state’s cap on charter schools. George Banning is one of their foot soldiers.
It’s been hard to miss the advocacy group Education Reform Now’s pro-charter, anti-teachers union ad blitz. The group, backed by millions of dollars raised largely from hedge fund managers, spent $750,000 on a television ad buy last week, for example. Its web ads plaster Google, Facebook and news websites.
But the group is also trying to rally support for its efforts in Albany by sending roughly 40 canvassers like
That leaves tomorrow and Friday for lawmakers to figure out a way to boost the state’s chances in the Race to the Top competition — without throwing away their concerns with charter schools. The final deadline for submitting an application is June 1, next Tuesday. Lawmakers have Monday off for Memorial Day.
As the deadline nears, a standoff is developing between the state Senate and the Assembly. Each chamber has passed its own legislation tied to Race to the Top: The state Senate already passed a bill that would raise the
Door to door in Crown Heights with a charter school foot soldier
George Banning canvasses for charter school advocates in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
It’s been hard to miss the advocacy group Education Reform Now’s pro-charter, anti-teachers union ad blitz. The group, backed by millions of dollars raised largely from hedge fund managers, spent $750,000 on a television ad buy last week, for example. Its web ads plaster Google, Facebook and news websites.
But the group is also trying to rally support for its efforts in Albany by sending roughly 40 canvassers like