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January 6, 2010
Rise & Shine: Lawsuit seeks to force city to lower class sizes
- The teachers union sued the city for not reducing class sizes. (GothamSchools, Times, Daily News, Post)
- Christine Quinn called saving student MetroCards a “priority” for City Council budget talks. (Daily News)
- School districts are shifting federal funds allocated for special needs student to general ed uses. (WSJ)
- Albany officials extended an olive branch to the city’s largest charter operator. (Albany Times Union)
- In a reversal, the head of Buffalo schools says he will back the state’s RttT bid. (Buffalo News)
- Marcus Winters argues in the Daily News that the UFT distorts its claims on charter schools.
- A Brooklyn high school teacher pleaded guilty to sex offender charges. (Post)
- California lawmakers made it easier for parents to transfer students from struggling schools. (L.A. Times)
- The governor of Michigan signed her state’s bill designed to better its RttT chances. (Detroit News)
- Arne Duncan announced a more streamlined application for college financial aid. (Washington Post)
- Chicago’s mayor vowed to continue the push to replace failing schools with new ones. (Chicago Tribune)
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January 6th, 2010 2:42 pm
Great article by Marcus Winters in the NY Daily News. I’m glad he pointed out the data from the Hoxby study: “when students who have already been diagnosed as disabled enter a charter school lottery, they are just as likely as other students to win a seat; among those who win a seat, disabled kids are just as likely to enroll, and among those who enroll, special education students are no more likely to return to a traditional public school.”
I wonder how the union feels about Zeke Vanderhoek’s charter school, The Equity Project. Isn’t higher pay what they’ve been asking for all along? TEP even has a professional development structure–partner teaching and mentoring–that many unions would like. But they certainly aren’t going to like the extended school day and the requirement that teachers design and lead extracurricular activities.
Read a new interview with Vanderhoek here: http://americanedreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/reformer-of-month-zeke-vanderhoek.html
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January 7th, 2010 8:23 pm
[...] the funny-enough-to-cry news is the teachers union has just sued the DOE over funds that were supposed to be used to keep class size down! I’m glad they are suing, [...]
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