Remainders: Where does John Boehner stand on education?
- A dispute between the city’s comptroller and the DOE could leave school buses uninsured. (City Hall)
- State Senate Education Committee Chair Suzi Oppenheimer is likely to keep her seat. (Times Union)
- Cuomo will probably have to cut education spending, but NY still has a lot in its favor. (Flypaper)
- M.S. 223’s Ramon Gonzalez tries to combat the middle school score drop. (The Examiner)
- Teachers aren’t resistant to change, but they are tired of non-stop change. (Flowers and Sausage)
- Josh Dunn talks about NYC’s school closure plans and the grants it has to work with. (Education Next)
- New House Speaker John Boehner cares about education, but his members don’t agree on much. (Time)
- NY social studies teachers are worried about what the end of the state’s test means for them. (HuffPo)
- Chicago’s teachers’ union wants a “community panel” to choose the next schools leaders. (Catalyst)
- Will Diane Ravitch’s NYRB review of “Waiting for Superman” hurt the movie’s Oscar chances? (WaPo)
- The NEA is waiting to see what kind of Republicans will get leadership spots. (EdWeek)
City receives $19.8 mill. for 11 schools it hopes to “transform”
The city will receive nearly $20 million in federal funds for the 11 city schools it hopes to “transform” with longer school days and experiments in teacher training.
The city has been expecting this money since April, when the federal government gave New York State $300 million to turn around the state’s “persistently lowest achieving” schools. A total of 34 of the schools on the state’s list are in New York City, and more city schools are expected to be added to the list when the state updates it in the coming weeks.
The Department of Education was eligible for $2 million for each of the schools on the state’s list, but this year the city chose to only apply for funds for 11 of them.
For these schools, the city chose the “transformation” model of school improvement, the least severe of four
