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Rise & Shine: Chris Cerf leaving DOE for Bloomberg campaign

  • Christopher Cerf, Joel Klein’s top deputy, is leaving Tweed for Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign. (Times)
  • Classes citywide exceed size limits, with parents at one school saying a class has 40 kids. (Daily News)
  • Juan Gonzalez: The city is renewing contracts and simultaneously laying off school aides. (Daily News)
  • In a letter, Randi Weingarten objects to the fights over seniority that accompany budget cuts. (Times)
  • Biking to school appears to be on the rise; 34 schools have requested more bike racks this year. (Times)
  • Colleges are recruiting city high school football players more now than in the recent past. (Daily News)
  • Half the entering 9th graders in Boston’s charter schools leave before graduation. (Boston Globe)
  • D.C. officials are asking to be freed from court-ordered special education mandates. (Washington Post)
  • Charter schools are booming in suburbs around the Twin Cities. (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
  • California’s statewide school data system is getting off the ground, but not without issues. (L.A. Times)
  • Michael M.

    How can anyone read Item 2 re 40 kids in a class, and principals being forced to accept all arriving students until the DOE agrees to “cap”, and consider two years of budgets cuts, and still think the principal — to the exclusion of the Chancellor and Mayor — should be the locus of accountability?

  • Smith

    Does Cerf’s exit mean the mayor is more important than our children?

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