Remainders: Liu’s education audit is unusually high-profile

by Maura Walz, at 11:32 pm

Chester Finn on Diane Ravitch: “She has become more conservative, while I have become more radical.”
Liu’s decision to announce his audit of progress reports in advance is unusual among city officials.
What happens if overly ambitious states ask for more money than RttT gives them?
Norm Scott sends out a blast from the past, reprinting perspectives on closing schools — from 2003.
An economist says the city’s new bake-sale regulations represent a bad form of regulation.
Kim Gittleson breaks down how much charters that don’t get city space pay for their buildings.
Linda Perlstein thinks the Gates teacher survey is valuable but doubts ed leaders will pay it much mind.
Jose Vilson attended last night’s TFA panel and thought John Legend’s arguments were weak.
James Davies O’Leary stumbled into a lecture by Bill Ayers and was not impressed.
Mrs. Mimi describes the hoops she must jump through to get a student help against bullying.
Jay Mathews corrects an error in his take on the plight of teachers in Central Falls, RI.
When the Natural History Museum took Pluto out of the planet line up, students were not happy about it.
And students at Urban Assembly New York Harbor School spotted a dolphin in Newtown Creek today.

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I suppose pushing programs that have repeatedly failed could be considered radical. Nonetheless, other adjectives spring to mind. And I guess repudiating the favored programs of conservatives could be considered conservative, especially when you consider that the conservatives don’t really wish to conserve anything that threatens the union-busting Wal-Mart family.

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