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)
Michael M.
Re Item 2, High School Dropouts and Incarceration:
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
–Frederick Douglass
Note 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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