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Rise & Shine: City to start billing schools for unpaid lunch fees | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: City to start billing schools for unpaid lunch fees | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: City to start billing schools for unpaid lunch fees

by Philissa Cramer
  • A Manhattan middle school for suspended students has gone all year without an English teacher. (Post)
  • The city is going to start billing schools for $1.50 lunch fees when students don’t pay. (NY1)
  • State Sen. Bill Perkins scrapped a follow-up charter school hearing without any explanation. (Post)
  • Basil Smikle, who is running to unseat Perkins, puts schools third on his platform. (Post)
  • Investigators found abuse at a special ed charter school. (GothamSchools, Post, Times, Daily News)
  • Schools are learning a lot from money managers’ quick action and attention to data. (Forbes Magazine)
  • Board members from Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School explain why a for-profit model works there. (Post)
  • Laid-off teachers could get financial aid for special education training under a city plan. (GothamSchools)
  • Education Trust’s Kati Haycock says the city has the tools to make performance-based layoffs. (Times)
  • Bronx Science teachers say they’re worried about the school’s future post fact-finding. (Riverdale Press)
  • The “recession-proof” market for teachers is the worst it has been since the Great Depression. (Times)
  • AFT President Randi Weingarten argues that public schools need a massive federal bailout. (WSJ)
  • Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushed a federal jobs bill in a commencement speech. (Boston Globe)
  • Some educators are focusing on the pre-high school years to stem the tide of dropouts. (USA Today)
  • Texas is set to approve controversial, right-leaning social studies standards. (Wall Street Journal)
  • Massachusetts is considering replacing its challenging state tests with a common test. (Boston Globe)
  • After difficult months, Philadelphia’s schools chief will shake up her top staff. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Education - Everything you need to know about the world of education.

Education- Everything you need to know about the world of education.

D.C. charter officials worried about new contract


Officials view pact as latest inequity in District funding policies governing the two school systems.
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VALERIE STRAUSS
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Charters should leave D.C. teachers contract alone

Public charter school advocates are, not surprisingly, upset about a proposed new contract that will significantly boost the salaries of unionized teachers in traditional D.C. public schools. But D.C. school system officials have it right: They shouldn’t be.

JAY MATHEWS
Class Struggle
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Posted at 10:00 PM ET, 05/19/2010

When looking at colleges, study their extra-curriculars

The stuff we look for in a good college, such as a high ranking, selective admissions, a national reputation, top faculty and a lovely campus, might not have as much influence on our future success as one factor that is often overlooked: the quality of extracurricular activities at those campuses. U.S. News & World Report doesn’t include that in its ranking formula. There were few, if any, questions about it when I accompanied my children on campus tours.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee.
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D.C. charter officials worried about new contract to well above $100,000 EducationNews.org

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Ed Next Research Finds NCLB Has Produced Substantial National Gains In Math Skills

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D.C. charter officials worried about new contract to well above $100,000

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'Non-traditional' college students share struggles - video series

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To fight 'dropout factories,' school program starts young

5.20.10 - PHILADELPHIA — The day has barely begun here at Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences, a middle school in the city's northeast corner, and Adam Jackson already is using his...
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