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October 9, 2009
Rise & Shine: To save $13m, city to ax 530 school aides
- More than 500 school aides are being laid off next week, for savings of about $13 million. (Daily News)
- High school dropouts are found to have a high rate of incarceration. (Times)
- The AFT is helping school districts build teacher evaluation systems that use test scores. (Newsweek)
- Why do teachers unions not fight charter schools like they used to? Thomas Carroll explains. (Post)
- The city’s transfer schools pair academic instruction and social services to at-risk teens. (NY1)
- The low-calorie school vending machines have officially been approved. (GothamSchools, NY1)
- Ten Long Island school administrators make more money than Joel Klein. (Newsday)
- Post readers weigh in on how the city’s negotiations with the teachers union should proceed.
- School districts nationwide are struggling to pay for their students’ lunches. (USA Today)
- Daily News readers stepped up to help the homeless family who travels hours to their schools.
- Places where H1N1 was common last year, including the city schools, aren’t seeing much now. (Times)
- Harvard is cutting back, closing a library and eliminating cookies at faculty meetings. (Times)
- Massachusetts’ legislature has 40 days to lift the charter school cap to get RttT funds. (Boston Globe)
- Paul Krugman says education budget cuts threaten America’s claim to being a great nation. (Times)
- The proposed academic standards intentionally do not suggest particular books. (Washington Post)
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October 9th, 2009 11:33 am
Re Item 2, High School Dropouts and Incarceration:
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
–Frederick DouglassNote that Boomberg is putting BILLIONS into new prisons and police academy construction — at the direct expense of not only schools, but the prospects for our most vulnerable young adults.
Every billion so spent could buy roughly 10,000 school seats in some 15 - 20 schools, or fund the education of roughly 50,000 students for a year.
Or buy a priceless amount of enrichment, remedial, and after-school programs CUT by Bloomberg, Klein, and their 5% budget slashing.
For perspective, per published reports, Bloomberg’s net worth last year dropped roughly twice that much, over $2 Billion. And he’s still the richest guy in town. Times are tough.
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