Rise & Shine: Disproportionately few Hispanics at city charters | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Disproportionately few Hispanics at city charters | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Disproportionately few Hispanics at city charters

by Philissa Cramer

• Hispanic students are severely underrepresented at city charter schools. (Times)
• Local students sometimes videotape their fistfights and post them on YouTube. (Daily News)
• Scholars to Work, a year-old city program, sets students at vocational schools up with real jobs. (NY1)
• Guardians aren’t happy that some students at In-Tech Academy were made to clean toilets. (Daily News)
• All over the country, schools are cutting the programs that helped them improve. (Wall Street Journal)
• Budget cuts and politics don’t bode well for Newark’s teachers union’s negotiations. (Wall Street Journal)
• Some New Jersey school districts are having to charge tuition for summer school this year. (AP)
• A Philadelphia school designed by Microsoft has taken a while to hit its stride. (AP)