Rise & Shine: A scholarship bait and switch for some HS grads

by Philissa Cramer, at 6:55 am

The city’s top accountability officer has resigned. (Times, GothamSchools 1, 2)
Hunter College tried to pull scholarships from city students who had been awarded them. (Daily News)
City Council candidates explain where their kids go to school and why. (Brooklyn Paper)
Parent councils fear rezoning will be stalled while the councils legally don’t exist. (Riverdale Press)
Manhattan’s Murry Bergtraum HS isn’t letting other schools use its ballfields. (Downtown Express)
Upper West Side families want a high school that gives them admissions priority. (West Side Spirit)
The City Council has cleared the way for a Park Slope school to be torn down. (Brooklyn Paper)
In Chicago, criticism of state tests but praise for students’ higher scores on them. (Chicago Tribune)
An special ed study found that too many Boston students were kept in separate classes. (Boston Globe)

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