Rise & Shine: Paterson asks for delay of $1.5 billion in school aid | GothamSchools
Rise & Shine: Paterson asks for delay of $1.5 billion in school aid | GothamSchools
- Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised the State Senate for passing a charter school cap lift bill. (Post)
- Gov. Paterson asked to delay $1.5 billion in school aid to keep the state from going broke. (Daily News)
- Archbishop Timothy Dolan says Catholic schools should welcome competition from charters. (Post)
- Inspired by Hunter College’s ed school, Harlem Success Academy is using videos to train teachers. (WSJ)
- Mayor Bloomberg appealed to Brooklyn churchgoers to help get the charter cap lifted. (WSJ, Daily News)
- The Post: Charter schools that emphasize ed school fads over student achievement deserve to be closed.
- Richard Whitmire: K-12 schools should be held accountable for boys’ poor literacy skills. (Daily News)
- The state teachers union supports lifting the charter cap, an upstate union rep says. (Buffalo News)
- Rocherster’s mayor called its mayoral control bill a “hybrid system.” (Democrat and Chronicle)
- PS 37 on Staten Island has entered an online contest to win funds to help its disabled students. (NY1)
- Queens’ I.S. 238 memorializes its former assistant principal, killed by swine flu last year. (Daily News)
- N.J. Gov. Christie wants teachers to forgo raises, though their salaries are relatively low. (Star-Ledger)
- Central Falls, R.I., reached a deal with its union to re-hire the teachers the district fired in March. (AP)
- The final episode of “Law & Order” will be about the city’s “rubber rooms” for accused teachers. (Times)
