Big Education Ape: Remainders: Waiting up for a (coming?) charter cap deal

Thursday, May 27, 2010

by Anna Phillips

Word out of Albany is that lawmakers are readying to vote on a charter cap bill tonight.
If the Assembly passes a charter bill tonight, the Senate would vote on it in the morning.
A high school teacher is primarying Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, a charter school supporter.
Summer weather is here and with it, the obligation to enforce schools’ vague dress codes.
The UFT is claiming that high performing charters are losing tons of kids through attrition.
Eighth graders take note: the last day to appeal a high school placement is next Tuesday.
In Philly parents are concerned that an online-learning school hasn’t taught students the basics.
Steven Eisman: the for-profit education industry is as destructive as the sub-prime mortgage industry.
D.C. special-ed chief apologizes after plan to move students from private to public schools hits snags.
Whether common standards are too much of a federal imposition is an issue that’s not going away.
Nationally, teacher/student ratios have gone down, but has investing in more teachers paid off?
Many NJ districts voted down their school budgets, but town councils are approving them anyway.
CA is seeing a steep decline in the number of people enrolling in teacher preparation programs.