Rise & Shine: Sect. Duncan reroutes NYC visit at union’s request | GothamSchools
Rise & Shine: Sect. Duncan reroutes NYC visit at union’s request | GothamSchools
- The “new politics of education” has Race to the Top and other forces causing unions to change. (Times)
- Union chief Randi Weingarten pressured Education Sect. Arne Duncan to reroute his NYC visit. (DN)
- Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch thinks “her Michaels” will work out Race to the Top. (DN)
- The Daily News says Duncan’s visit will give a well-timed boost to Race to the Top’s chance in NY.
- At East Harlem TAG, parents focus on raising funds and improving the school’s image. (Times)
- Bob Herbert: we need more schools like Bard HS, where students graduate with an assoc. degree.
- Nearly two-thirds of VA & MD kids can’t read proficiently by the end of third grade. (Washington Post)
- Bill Clinton and Al Sharpton are backing a bill that would raise NY’s charter cap. (Post)
- In a poll run by a pro-charter group, 63 percent of respondents said they want the cap lifted. (Post)
- Two I.S. 208 students were arrested for sexually abusing a 12 year old girl at school. (Post, NY1)
- A Manhattan Inst. writer says Diane Ravitch’s testimony against charter schools is flawed. (Post)
- Law & Order’s rubber room episode will include teachers who say they shouldn’t be there. (Post)
