Charter school booster Thomas Carroll says the students were the press conference’s highlight. (Post)
A new survey says parents want sex education classes, which few schools have. (NY1, NBC New York)
New state education chief David Steiner is being sworn in today. (Albany Times-Union)
The large “achievement gap” between city students and their white counterparts has narrowed. (Post)
More details (FOILed, not leaked) about the “substandard” school planned for DUMBO. (Brooklyn Paper)
A Bronx teacher was charged with having a relationship a now-pregnant 15-year-old. (NY1, Daily News)
Sol Stern: The UFT and the Bloomberg administration have a “cartel-like relationship.” (City Journal)
Former DOE official Garth Harries is teaching a class at Yale’s business school. (Yale Daily News)
A new evaluation system for D.C. teachers ties ratings to increased test scores. (Washington Post)
steve
Sol Stern is dead on…reading that made me sick to my stomach, seeing how taxpayers, and more importantly our children, suffer the consequences of such a crooked system. The UFT is a disgrace
Michael M.
Re Item 2,
Tom C is a frequent commenter here, and a big charter booster with many titles attesting to his boosterhood.
Tom, I would like to challenge you to honor the word, “accountability” in “Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability” by calling for some *accountability* in the grossly inflated School Progress Report grades. And yes, this relates to charters….
It is nonsensical that the Chancellor could give nearly all the Traditional Public Schools A’s (while knocking 20% of the teachers no less with potentially career-ending “unsatisfactory” ratings)… while the Mayor is saying that only charters — the only kind of “reform” he’s hyping these days — can save the day.
“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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