Rise & Shine: A floor for sure-to-fall progress report scores | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: A floor for sure-to-fall progress report scores | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: A floor for sure-to-fall progress report scores

by Philissa Cramer

• The city is limiting how far schools’ progress report grades can fall this year. (Daily News)
• The city’s new Innovation Zone is being unsettled by a wave of changes. (Gotham Gazette)
• Classes at Quest to Learn, the city’s video game school, don’t always look like learning. (Times)
• A Queens charter school had its application rejected by the state after applying to the city. (Daily News)
• Nearly 200 students spent the first days of school at Bryant High School doing nothing. (Post)
• New poverty guidelines mean that Stuyvesant HS will receive federal aid for the first time. (Post)
• Unusually, federal immigration authorities have subpoenaed a city student’s school records. (Times)
• The city’s longest-running rubber room occupant is still waiting for his work assignment. (Post)
• One of Newark’s top teachers was among those laid off due to budget cuts. (WSJ)
• Details in “Waiting for ‘Superman’” are out of date, but its director says the point remains. (Times)
• The Post says the teachers union complains about class size only to boost itself.
• The Times says federal suspension data show that schools are abusing zero tolerance.
• Chancellor Klein says school reform is needed for international competitiveness. (Delaware Online)
• Ed Sec Arne Duncan says virtual teachers won’t replace in-the-flesh ones. (Times)