Rise & Shine: Numbers show charter cap lift not key to RttT win
Race to the Top:
- Eastern U.S. states dominated Race to the Top’s winners. (Times)
- New York was one of them, receiving $696 million. (GothamSchools, Times, Daily News)
- New York City could see as much as $300 million of that. (Daily News, Post)
- The state would have placed third even if it hadn’t raised the charter cap. (Daily News)
- State education officials have ambitious plans for using the funds. (GothamSchools, WNYC)
- Actually seeing all the money depends on serious follow-through. (Wall Street Journal)
- City unions want the city to use Race to the Top winnings to rehire laid-off workers. (Daily News)
- New Jersey missed out on funding because of a data goof, and officials are angry. (AP, Post)
- The Post says the real Race to the Top win came in May when the charter cap was lifted.
- The Daily News says the hard work of making sure the reforms are successful is yet to come.
- Josh Greenman: Teachers unions were the only losers in Race to the Top. (Daily News)
News from New York City:
- City teachers spend even more of their own money on their classrooms since funding was cut. (CNN)
- Principal Mark Federman is sleeping in a tent to raise money for his Manhattan high school. (Daily News)
- A Queens secretary spent $10,000 of school funds on her own expenses. (Post, Daily News)
- Employees at Manhattan’s PS 149 misused $30,000 and kept $10,000 in a cabinet. (Post, Daily News)
- After a fight, Girls Prep Charter School will open its middle school in a private space. (WSJ, Times)
- The city has launched a campaign to increase GED test-taking. (NY1)
- A teacher at a Brooklyn charter school was arrested for sexually assaulting a student. (Post)
- Two recent reports undercut the idea that Mayor Bloomberg is a good manager. (Gotham Gazette)
- Some say a state test given this summer glorified Islam and criticized Christianity. (Post)
And beyond:
- Ed Sec Arne Duncan’s goal of overhauling 1,000 schools is foundering because of logistics. (Times)
- Duncan also wants more states to release individual teacher data. (L.A. Times, Washington Post)
- White voters in New York State let school budgets take bigger hits than non-white voters. (Times)
- Thomas Friedman wants readers to see the edu-reform documentary “Waiting for Superman.” (Times)
- Stuart Buck argues that history shows segregated schools are superior. (Daily News)
- Jerry Weast, the longtime schools chief in Montgomery County, Md., is retiring. (Washington Post)
- Two students from New Orleans highlight the wide range in school quality post-Katrina. (NPR)
- Louisiana is getting $1.8 billion for schools that were destroyed in Katrina. (Times)
- Debate is raging over whether chocolate milk should be served in school cafeterias. (Times)