Rise & Shine: City to start billing schools for unpaid lunch fees | GothamSchools
Rise & Shine: City to start billing schools for unpaid lunch fees | GothamSchools
- A Manhattan middle school for suspended students has gone all year without an English teacher. (Post)
- The city is going to start billing schools for $1.50 lunch fees when students don’t pay. (NY1)
- State Sen. Bill Perkins scrapped a follow-up charter school hearing without any explanation. (Post)
- Basil Smikle, who is running to unseat Perkins, puts schools third on his platform. (Post)
- Investigators found abuse at a special ed charter school. (GothamSchools, Post, Times, Daily News)
- Schools are learning a lot from money managers’ quick action and attention to data. (Forbes Magazine)
- Board members from Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School explain why a for-profit model works there. (Post)
- Laid-off teachers could get financial aid for special education training under a city plan. (GothamSchools)
- Education Trust’s Kati Haycock says the city has the tools to make performance-based layoffs. (Times)
- Bronx Science teachers say they’re worried about the school’s future post fact-finding. (Riverdale Press)
- The “recession-proof” market for teachers is the worst it has been since the Great Depression. (Times)
- AFT President Randi Weingarten argues that public schools need a massive federal bailout. (WSJ)
- Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushed a federal jobs bill in a commencement speech. (Boston Globe)
- Some educators are focusing on the pre-high school years to stem the tide of dropouts. (USA Today)
- Texas is set to approve controversial, right-leaning social studies standards. (Wall Street Journal)
- Massachusetts is considering replacing its challenging state tests with a common test. (Boston Globe)
- After difficult months, Philadelphia’s schools chief will shake up her top staff. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
