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Rise & Shine: Teaching spots exempt from L.A.’s hiring freeze

  • Queens schools with low progress report grades are worried about their fates. (Daily News)
  • Will Chancellor Joel Klein be staying on for Bloomberg’s third term? No one knows. (City Hall)
  • After a bad day at Brooklyn’s IS 281, a 13-year-old with autism hid on the subway for 11 days. (Times)
  • Lawmakers are recommending few city students to attend the national military academies. (AP)
  • One who does, a Hunter College HS graduate at West Point, was just named a Rhodes Scholar. (Post)
  • Los Angeles now has a hiring freeze for all education positions except teachers. (SF Chronicle)
  • In a letter, theĀ Ford Foundation’sĀ president says there’s hope for public schools. (Wall Street Journal)
  • Obama’s plan to boost math and science includes a national science fair. (Wall Street Journal)
  • An audit found that a national civics education group misspent nearly $6 million last year. (USA Today)

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