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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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:
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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