Rise & Shine: Debate on new charter school bill starts today | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Debate on new charter school bill starts today | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Debate on new charter school bill starts today

by Philissa Cramer

• Despite the buzz around charter schools, nationally many of them aren’t that good. (Times)
• State Senate Dems proposed a bill that would raise the charter cap. (GothamSchools, Post, Daily News)
• Senators will begin debating the proposed bill in earnest today. (Post)
• The Post says the bill’s measures to constrain charter schools do not amount to “poison pills.”
• The Daily News says there should be more charter schools because teachers want to work in them.
• The UFT’s 630 paid employees include three whose salaries top $200,000. (Post)
• UFT President Michael Mulgrew appears to have taken to calling Joel Klein Chancellor Numbnuts. (Post)
• LaGuardia High School could soon get metal detectors after student work was vandalized. (Post)
• The founding principal of Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow High School died at 76. (Wall Street Journal)
• More children qualified for gifted classes even as fewer applied. (GothamSchools, Times, Post, NY1)
• Six low-income districts had so few children qualify that they won’t open gifted classes. (Daily News)
• A disabled teacher at a Bronx school perseveres despite health problems and a broken elevator. (Times)
• Colorado politicians are weighing a bill that would curb teacher tenure protections. (Wall Street Journal)
• The Times says New Haven’s teacher evaluation plan shows unions and districts can work together.
• In letters to the editor, Times readers weigh in on how school districts should evaluate teachers.
• A New Jersey principal is asking parents to get their kids off of social networking websites. (CNN)
• The Catholic school model of urban education is underappreciated, Joseph Berger writes. (Times)