City backs away from sweeping contract plan after Liu protests
Protests from Comptroller John Liu have promted the city to scrap a proposal that would have let it enter into certain contracts without individual approval from the citywide school board.
Since the state legislature voted last summer to extend Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s control over the city schools, the Panel for Educational Policy has been required to approve all contracts worth more than $1 million
Remainders: In the salary wars, Joel Klein beats David Paterson
Since the state legislature voted last summer to extend Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s control over the city schools, the Panel for Educational Policy has been required to approve all contracts worth more than $1 million
Remainders: In the salary wars, Joel Klein beats David Paterson
- Chancellor Joel Klein is making a lot more money than Governor David Paterson. (Politics K-12)
- The city wants the Panel for Educational Policy to give up some of its limited power. (City Room, GS)
- How did the Columbus Secondary School principal get tenure if principal tenure doesn’t exist? (Chaz)
- Rotherham thanks the Times’ NCLB-forced-out-a-good-principal story is simplistic. (Eduwonk)
- Valerie Grey is the State Education Department’s new COO. (NYSED)
- Doug Lemov describes great teachers as great problem-solvers. (Flypaper, Education Next)
- Head Start programs could be in for a rude awakening, funding-wise. (Early Ed Watch)
- NBC’s Education Nation convention is public-service meets marketing. (Sacramento Bee)
- A Berkeley playwright is making a school board the setting for a culture war. (Times)
- Charter schools may be hurting middle-class kids’ scores because they don’t focus on tests. (Flypaper)