Rise & Shine: Districts pushed to stop asking immigration status | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Districts pushed to stop asking immigration status | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Districts pushed to stop asking immigration status

by Philissa Cramer

• Many New York State school districts illegally ask about enrollees’ immigration status. (Times)
• A 14-year-old who allegedly killed his family had been suspended from IS 72’s summer school. (Times)
• The DOE isn’t punishing the employee taped using racial epithets to describe parents. (Queens Tribune)
• PS 72 in East Harlem got a new soccer field — on its roof. (NY1)
• Psychology professors say bullying can stop only if schools understand child development. (Times)
• A UPenn professor wants to start a business incubator for education entrepreneurs. (AP)
• Ex-New Yorker Ramon Cortines will step down as Los Angeles’s superintendent next year. (L.A. Times)
• There is growing concern that the United States’s college completion rate is too low. (Times)
• Restrictive contracting rules require California schools to overpay for construction. (S.F. Chronicle)
• Oakland, Calif., has a plan to improve scores by improving students’ social services. (Times)