Rise & Shine: The Post lays it on Bill Perkins, a charter opponent | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: The Post lays it on Bill Perkins, a charter opponent | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: The Post lays it on Bill Perkins, a charter opponent

by Philissa Cramer

• State Sen. Bill Perkins’ upcoming hearing on charter schools will showcase his antagonistic views. (Post)
• The Post asks why Perkins opposes charter schools when his constituents like them. (Post)
• Thomas Carroll says Perkins and the state teachers union are unfairly attacking charter schools. (Post)
• The Albany Times Union profiles Peter Murphy, policy head of the state’s Charter Schools Association.
• Murphy appeals to research to exhort Perkins to change his tune on charter schools. (Post)
• School choruses are seeing interest from kids who are hooked on the musical TV show “Glee.” (Post)
• Two Queens districts are fighting to claim PS 130, a school that lies on their border. (Daily News)
• Brooklyn’s PS 105 has the borough’s longest kindergarten waitlist, at 76 potential students. (Daily News)
• The staff at PS 105, including the principal, an immigrant herself, speak 7 Chinese dialects. (Daily News)
• In New Jersey, school districts are simultaneously trying to raise taxes and cut school spending. (Times)
• Military leaders want to improve school food so their recruits will be healthier. (USA Today)
• The Penn. district accused of spying on students took 56,000 pictures of them. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Federal officials visited a San Francisco school to learn how it turned around. (S.F. Chronicle)