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Rise & Shine: Extra-budget boosts for three high-tech schools

  • Three “21st-century schools” got big budget boosts outside the normal budgeting process. (Daily News)
  • A angry mother was arrested after hitting the principal of Brooklyn’s Art and Design High School. (Post)
  • The city is building five new schools in Queens for next fall, but some wonder if it’s enough. (Daily News)
  • An investigation found that a former ACORN employee used her DOE position to scam Verizon. (Times)
  • Teachers present and retired respond to Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to link tenure to test scores. (Times)
  • Joel Klein faced a tough crowd of about 200 parents on Staten Island earlier this week. (S.I. Advance)
  • Massachusetts legislature accidentally amended its charter school bill to exclude Boston. (Boston Globe)
  • Proponents of healthier school lunches are finding that feeding kids well is expensive. (USA Today)
  • Steve Barr is giving $50,000 back to Green Dot after an audit questioned his expenses. (L.A. Times)
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  1. reality-based educator

    Here’s the Hypocrisy of the Day - Harold Ford Jr. co-wrote a piece at the Journal last week with Louis Gerstner and Eli Broad that says meaningful education reform must come from tracking student performance and teacher performance through data systems - i.e., standardized tests. Here’s the link:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574483473296731550.html#

    Ironically, Mr. Ford, who attended the University of Michigan Law School, couldn’t pass the bar exam and failed to obtain his law license, though he did refer to himself as a lawyer during his 2006 Senate campaign against Bob Corker.

    Yikes - the man who writes about the importance of data tracking and standardized testing for teacher and student performance failed the standardized test measurement in his own career - takes gall to do that with a straight face.

    Clearly he doesn’t know anything about law even after studying it at law school. Wonder where he got his education expertise from?

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