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Rise & Shine: Budget cuts could eliminate most Regents exams

News from New York City:

  • PTAs at 26 schools have raised more than $2 million this year to pay for extra teachers aides. (Post)
  • The Board of Regents is considering eliminating 13 Regents exams to save money. (Daily News,Post)
  • Parents say the Joel Klein-Eva Moskowitz e-mails should stop school closures for now. (Daily News)
  • State Sen. Bill Perkins is at odds with many of his Harlem constituents on education policy. (Times)
  • A member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board says the teachers union should get out of Harlem.
  • A teacher is in the rubber room after being accused of choking a student at Life Academy HS. (Post)
  • Students at the Brooklyn charter school that parents say is too strict earn top test scores. (Post)
  • Parents and students protested against the impending closures of Catholic schools. (Daily News)
  • Students from Samuel Gompers HS competed in a memory competition this weekend. (Daily News)
  • This year’s Penny Harvest change drive will collect funds for Haiti. (NY1)
  • Bob Herbert backs the New York Civil Liberties Union’s safety lawsuit against the city schools. (Times)

And beyond:

  • Some think teachers can be made better with a new kind of teacher education. (Times)
  • Others argue that teaching is an innate skill, so more bad teachers should be fired. (Newsweek)
  • Ed Sec Arne Duncan said states shouldn’t change schools policy just for money. (GothamSchools, Post)
  • The Daily News says New York should still make changes to increase its Race to the Top chances.
  • The Wall Street Journal says Race to the Top will fail because it’s trying to be all things to all people.
  • Duncan is in Selma, Ala., today to unveil stepped-up civil rights initiatives. (TimesWall Street Journal)
  • President Obama’s warm response to the Central Falls mass teacher firing was “tough love.” (Times)
  • Similar mass firings where teachers had to reapply for their jobs have helped some schools. (USA Today)
  • Educational and fiscal imperatives compete in districts’ move to four-day weeks. (Wall Street Journal)
  • Readers weigh in on Diane Ravitch’s changing education policy positions. (Times)
  • Boston Globe columnist argues against the current drive toward national standards.
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  1. QueensParent

    C’mon you guys. There’s no mention here of the history that was made in Madison Square Garden this weekend at the PSAL Basketball Championship. Ruth Lovelace became the first ever female coach of a boys team to win the title. Must education news always be doom and gloom?

  2. Queens Parent-

    Most of what you write is doom and gloom against teachers usually without having all the facts.

  3. QueensParent

    Bronx Teacher take your bad attitude somewhere else, or just do your job, that’d be even better.

  4. Michael M.

    Pot? Non-kettle.

    BT, you clearly haven’t figgered out that in QP’s world, teachers, or more precisely UFT teachers, are the enemy of educated kids throughout the land.

    (But she’s not alone. No less an authority than Joel Klein so much as called teachers the biggest obstacle to children’s civil rights in a May 2009 HuffingtonPost essay that still sticks in my craw:
    “Poor and minority students will never get their fair share of educational opportunity — and are far more likely to lead unsuccessful lives — until administrators and political leaders commit to fundamentally changing the way teachers are recruited, rewarded, and retained. The goal is as easy to articulate as it is hard to realize: that every classroom will one day be led by an effective instructor who demonstrably advances student learning.”
    Love them non sequiturs. Karl Rove would be proud.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-klein/transforming-the-teaching_b_200616.html)

    Why less than a week ago, I very politely suggested that QP had seemingly made a TYPO when suggesting that all DOE-hired teachers should not be teaching. As opposed to: not all should be, or some such. QP, who I believe reads most everything here, let the original comment stand, and the correction slide.

    Re Coach Lovelace, thanks, QP. Great story.
    Congrats to Coach Lovelace, the team, and the entire school.
    http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high_school/2010/03/07/2010-03-07_roos_hop_into_history.html

    But only 5000 or so people saw the game, thanks to a melee at and after the title game in 2007, at which coincidentally, Coach Lovelace became the first female coach to reach the finals. Since then, tickets since have been severely limited, and no at-the-door sales.
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/kevin_armstrong/03/19/psal.brawl/

    And there was another melee THIS year, sad to say. The article isn’t clear, but seems the venue was one of the schools, not MSG.
    http://www.nydailynews.com/other/2010/02/26/2010-02-26_melee_erupts_at_psal_playoffs.html

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