Rise & Shine: Education jobs bailout bill hits a stumbling block
- After another day of talks, there’s still been no charter cap bill deal. (Daily News, GothamSchools, Post)
- State Sen. John Sampson said he thinks New York could win Race to the Top’s second round. (NY1)
- The Daily News puts the burden on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to stop the state from losing again.
- The head of a welfare group says the city needs charters schools that serve the neediest children. (Post)
- At the same time charter supporters want the cap lifted, there are questions about oversight. (Times)
- Police chief Ray Kelly unveiled a program to prosecute students who attack school safety officers. (NY1)
- Debbie Almontaser, the ex-principal of the Khalil Gibran school, won’t sue over being fired. (Times)
- Students at Riker’s Island’s public school participated in a cooking contest. (GothamSchools, NY1)
- Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin is letting go of plan A for the education jobs bill he is sponsoring. (Reuters)
- Hawaii reached a budget deal that will end the state’s practice of shortening the school year. (AP)
- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says teachers unions are used to getting everything they want. (Post)
- The Times says rational teachers in Texas should ignore politicized social studies standards.
Remainders: Brooklyn parents call for more school options
- A bill to help states forestall teacher layoffs may have more than just Republican opposition.
- Parents in Brooklyn’s District 13 are petitioning the city to add more elementary school options.
- Teachers who have been in the rubber room found last night’s “Law and Order” finale sympathetic.
- The Onion AV Club says the episode broke with L&O routine and ended too “overheated.”
- The Daily Politics has a partial list of Bloomberg’s public school graduation engagements.
- Diane Ravitch lists her top 10 reasons why states and districts should tune out Race to the Top.
- In the community section, Alexander Hoffman questions the question: why bother with merit pay?
- Leonie Haimson and Mona Davids argue against the bill being touted by charter school supporters.
- Econ class in Texas comes with an emphasis on the “free market and its benefits.”
- Illinois wants to make teachers learn more and get higher test scores before entering the classroom.
- Fordham’s Andy Smarick says goodbye before heading off to be NJ’s Dept. Edu Commish.
- A new report from Ball State Univ. finds the states are underfunding charter schools.
- And HS grades are a good predictor of college success, but only if the grades mean anything.
At a Rikers Island school, inmates turn into “cheftestants”
A student makes spicy chicken pastelitos in a training kitchen at Island Academy, a high school for incarcerated students on Rikers Island.
A clock ticked down, and two teams of women in chef’s jackets scurried around a kitchen, rolling pastry dough and sauteing fish. Corn chowder simmered on a stove and buttermilk biscuits baked in the oven. When the clock hit zero, the anxious cooks presented their creations to accomplished visiting chefs, who tallied their judgments of the meals’ creativity and flavor.