For those who are not paying attention, mayoral control is up for renewal this summer. (AP)
Comptroller Bill Thompson’s record on education shows he’s not a reformer. (Post)
The DOE is looking to expand the program that grades teachers by test scores. (Post, GothamSchools)
Girls at East Side Community High School take classes in skateboarding. (Voice of America)
Some Bronx students are learning how to produce news for YouTube. (Riverdale Press)
The stimulus money is meant to reshape American education, Arne Duncan says. (Washington Post)
The Jewish Week says a Hebrew language charter school could threaten religious day schools.
Arne Duncan doesn’t want D.C. students using vouchers to have to leave their schools. (AP)
http://nyceducator.com NYC Educator
I notice you write, “The Jewish Week says a Hebrew language charter school could threaten religious day schools.”
Wouldn’t it be a little more even-handed to also write “The NY Post says” Thompson is no reformer? Isn’t the Post a tabloid from ultra-right winger Rupert Murdoch, the same guy who brings us that “fair and balanced” Fox News?
“I wonder whether school are more or less integrated along socioeconomic lines than they are along racial lines. I could imagine the title of that article being "why don't we have any rich kids?"
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