Remainders: Just before vote, city rethinks Clinton School move
- 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).