Rise & Shine: Charter schools pushing for construction funding

by Philissa Cramer, at 7:11 am

The current solution in the Gates Foundation’s search for a silver bullet is teacher effectiveness. (AP)
Two new city charter schools are in new buildings, and advocates are pushing for funds for more. (Times)
The city’s former top labor negotiator says he thinks New York is not eligible for Race to the Top. (WNYC)
Tests scores were flat at Green Dot’s L.A. high school. (More students took the tests.) (L.A. Times)
The family of a boy whose bus company failed to take him home is suing. (Daily News)
A study of the ACT finds only a quarter of test-takers are likely to do well in college. (Wall Street Journal)
In Florida, top school officials spend time in the classroom as substitutes. (Miami Herald)
Atlanta is quietly striving to become a model urban school district. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Principals whose schools don’t improve should be fired, Joel Klein-protégé Julia Gillard said. (The Age)
For the first time, activists and the feds agree that students should get healthy school lunches. (Times)
The parent rebellion against ice cream is spreading. (Times)

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12 NYC schools on @Newsweek's list of best 1,000 American high schools (not the same as last week's list): http://t.co/1tqx9o2C 13 hrs ago
Dennis Walcott runs, sings in a church choir, and makes the week's meals on Sundays: "I can do everything except sew." http://t.co/vVOBRp5G 17 hrs ago
@JBrownDPost: surprised to see that federal gov. doesn't have a way of deciding "what worked" for the SIG schools over 3 yrs process. #EWA12 1 day ago
.@tkonz: Of 18 SIG schools, only about 4 teachers were recruited from strong schools because they "wanted to be part of a big change" #EWA12 1 day ago
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