Remainders: Students’ chances of getting summer jobs improve | GothamSchools

Remainders: Students’ chances of getting summer jobs improve | GothamSchools

Remainders: Students’ chances of getting summer jobs improve

by Anna Phillips

• A teacher says seniority-based layoffs mean talent goes elsewhere and doesn’t always come back.
• Teachers’ Night at the Apollo began with booing and ended with a music teacher winning first prize.
• A day of protest focused on ending cuts to city schools is being planned for tomorrow.
• Students’ chances of finding a summer job have improved with the passage of a jobs bill.
• Two Queens teachers saved a colleague and a student from choking in separate incidents.
• Miss Eyre: no raises make sense if there’s no money, but saying teachers shouldn’t want more is wrong.
• Mike Petrilli says Bloomberg’s call for no layoffs shows you don’t need more federal money to save jobs.
• Many states that require students to take gym have loopholes that water down their mandates.
• States that avoided severe cuts to education and healthcare may have to make cuts there next year.
• Chad Aldeman looks at two competing merit pay studies experiments and early evaluations of them.
• The head of the Center on Education Policy thinks Pennsylvania has a “decent chance” of winning RttT.
• While Maryland and D.C. are likely to adopt common standards, Virginia remains unconvinced.
• And a study finds that competition from tax-credit vouchers is improving Florida’s public schools.