Remainders: Fight over federal education cuts heats up | GothamSchools
Remainders: Fight over federal education cuts heats up | GothamSchools
- A court upheld an earlier ruling barring the city from closing 19 “failing” schools. (WNYC, Times)
- Obama threatens to veto the edujobs bill if it cuts his education initiatives. (Edweek)
- Weingarten says the president’s “pet projects” shouldn’t be immune to budget cuts. (Edweek)
- Talk of cuts to Race to the Top is making some state officials very worried. (Edweek)
- If we make cuts to save teacher jobs now, we’ll have to make even deeper cuts next year. (Eduwonk)
- Jonathan Chait looks at how the left and right are reacting to education cuts. (The New Republic)
- Valerie Strauss asks how Rhee can see the problem with turnover, then threaten to leave. (WaPo)
- Early education advocates believe the school turnaround craze misses the point. (Early Ed Watch)
- On her last day on the job Chicago’s teachers union president talks school funding. (Fox)
- Brazil might beat the Netherlands in futbol, but what about in the classroom? (Flypaper)
