Rise & Shine: City finds teacher faked fall on observation day | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: City finds teacher faked fall on observation day | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: City finds teacher faked fall on observation day

by Philissa Cramer

• A Brooklyn teacher threw herself down stairs to avoid a performance review, investigators say. (Post)
• The city tossed a mound of books from the windows of a Catholic school it’s leasing. (Daily News)
• City schools and colleges accounted for half of all construction starts in the last two years. (Crain’s NY)
• A nonprofit gives special assistance to visually impaired students who are heading to college. (NY1)
• The Harbor School is finally holding school fulltime on Governor’s Island. (WNYC)
• West Harlem residents still can’t decide what should be done with the old PS 156 building. (Times)
• The Post points out that the union’s charter schools saw larger-than-average test score drops.
• Chicago has dropped a plan to save money by eliminating non-varsity sports. (Sun-Times)
• An independent review of test irregularities in Atlanta found no evidence of systemic cheating. (Times)
• In letters to the editor, readers including a city teacher weigh in on kindergarten teacher quality. (Times)