Rise & Shine: A floor for sure-to-fall progress report scores | GothamSchools- 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- Details in “Waiting for ‘Superman’” are out of date, but its director says the point remains.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)
