Remainders: Bloomberg: 15,000 teacher layoffs possible
- If the state cuts the city’s ed budget by $1 billion, 15,000 teachers would be laid off. (Reuters)
- Here are New York’s new state teaching standards, newly Regents-approved. (NYSED, PDF)
- A woman who lied to get her children into better schools deemed new Rosa Parks. (NPR)
- The UFT mapped the locations of schools slated for closure and charter schools. (Edwize)
- There’s reason to be concerned about the Promise Neighborhoods project. (Paul Tough)
- Ohio’s state teacher pension board is recommending big benefit cuts. (Dayton Daily News)
- A prominent ed researcher says he is skeptical of much of ed research. (Larry Cuban)
- Joel Klein’s new nonprofit has a mailer urging support for closing schools. (Daily Politics)
- Another argument that the U.S. should mimic Finland, in a slightly unusual place. (TNR)
- Finland’s success story doesn’t support either side in US’s ed wars. (Quick and the Ed)
Black on city history, teacher turnover, and school closures
Chancellor Cathie Black showed what she has learned and what she hasn't in her first month on the job on NY1 last night.
Chancellor Cathie Black’s interview on Inside City Hall last night is worth watching in full. The interview exposes just how much Black has been able to absorb in her first month on the job — and how much she hasn’t.
In a moment first highlighted by NY1 education reporter Lindsey Christ on Twitter, Black declared, ”The public school system in New York City has been unbelievably successful since the birth of our nation.” She was responding to a question from host Errol Louis about why she chose to send her children to private rather than
