Rise & Shine: Top-flight Hunter College HS divided over diversity | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Top-flight Hunter College HS divided over diversity | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Top-flight Hunter College HS divided over diversity

by Philissa Cramer

• Torn over its lack of racial diversity, Hunter College HS lost its third principal in five years. (Times)
• The city will expand a charter school against the state’s instructions. (GothamsSchools, Daily News)
• The Obama administration announced 49 presumptive recipients of special “innovation” funds. (AP)
• The city will get money to expand some programs but not to open 150 new small schools. (Post)
• The aid package the Senate passed yesterday would let New York keep 7,100 teaching jobs. (WSJ)
• Detroit is reassigning half the teachers at a quarter of its schools. (Detroit News)
• Only 76 of the 241 teachers Michelle Rhee fired were rated as “ineffective.” (Washington Post)