Rise & Shine: About 2,000 kindergartners still without schools | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: About 2,000 kindergartners still without schools | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: About 2,000 kindergartners still without schools

by Maura Walz

• Families of about 2,000 kindergartners might wait til Tuesday to find out their placements. (Daily News)
• State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer plans to hold hearings on the re-calibrated state test scores. (Post)
• About 1,700 teachers currently lack full-time teaching positions. (GothamSchools, Daily News, WNYC)
• Many of them have not applied for new jobs or attended recruitment fairs. (Post, Wall Street Journal)
• The federal government gave states $330 million to develop new tests. (Times, Washington Post, CSM)
• An education professor argues that politics, not proven results, drive Obama education policy. (SF Gate)
• Staten Island residents rallied against a city plan to reduce bus service for middle schools. (SI Advance)
• Opposition is growing to a city plan to help build a new Harlem Childrens Zone building. (Daily News)
• Merrick Academy is re-hiring three of the 11 teachers it laid off via FedEx. (Daily News, WNYC)
• A Staten Island teacher who sued the city over her suspension for using vulgar slang has settled. (Post)
• The L.A. Board of Ed formally asked for test scores to be used in teacher evaluations. (L.A. Times)