Remainders: Just before vote, city rethinks Clinton School move | GothamSchools

Remainders: Just before vote, city rethinks Clinton School move | GothamSchools

Remainders: Just before vote, city rethinks Clinton School move

by Anna Phillips

• Sol Stern, of the Manhattan Inst., submits his modest proposal for NY: suspend test score based bonuses.
• Senate Education Committee will consider a bill placing more restrictions on charter schools tomorrow.
• The DOE is rethinking its plan to move the Clinton School into the ASL school the night before the vote.
• The state teachers union is sending out mailers slamming Dems for supporting education cuts.
• Gov. Paterson predicts massive voter discontent with school boards and their budgets this year.
• Second Lady Jill Biden will be the keynote speaker at Teachers College’s graduation tomorrow.
• Students are planning to march across the Brooklyn Bridge next month to protest Metrocard cuts.
• Broome Street Academy, a charter that would focus on kids in shelters, is waiting for the cap to lift.
• Sen. Eric Adams’ “Stop the Sag” campaign is in schools, but Sen. Malcolm Smith is taking it to buses.
• Norm Scott thinks the city teachers union’s fate is to be an oppressive company union.
• Budgets cuts are causing language courses and other classes to drop from schools’ offerings.
• Does denying students things for bad behavior help learning? asks Jay Mathews.
• After all the controversy surrounding Central Falls, Rotherham asks why the solution took so long.
• The number of disabled students is down slightly and it could be because of schools.
• Patrick Riccards explains when and how it’s appropriate to use the term “education reform.”
• And Technorati comes out with its list of the top 20 education blogs (P.S. We’re number 3).