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June 25, 2009
Remainders: A young teacher will fight to teach another year
- The Senate came to no agreements today and won’t be paid. Three biz days till June 30.
- Children at the playground gave their advice for the senators to Beth Fertig.
- Rick Lazio, who’s running for governor, says disband the Senate. (Gubernatorial control?)
- Tests in May upset principals who say they can’t plan. What’s the effect on test prep?
- A teaching fellow at the end of his service can’t believe he now has to fight to teach.
- Nearly 200 teachers will get pink slips in Rochester.
- Debbie Meier says she needs to face the pitfalls of too much democracy and local control.
- The school year will start (and end) a day later next year.
- Michael Mulgrew will have to face the teachers. Here’s one dissenter.
- A state court of appeals ruled that the state comptroller can’t audit charter schools.
- Philly’s School of the Future, opened by Microsoft, has floundered. (Via Joanne Jacobs.)
- The national Parent Teacher Association falls in line for national standards.
- A former AFT official who’s still close to the union has a new paper on tenure. (Via Eduwonk.)
- The Broader, Bolder group offers an alternative accountability approach. (Via Flypaper.)
- A Chicago education academic praises local journalists for ensuring accountability.
- There’s some fuzziness in Congress about who will support Obama’s education plans.
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