District schools in Harlem are focusing more on marketing to compete with their charter neighbors. (Times)
One of the unions of school bus drivers has authorized a strike but has no plans to carry one out. (NY1)
A Cambria Heights student was arrested for painting a “hate-filled” mural on his school’s walls. (Post)
Brooklyn Generation School, a high school, is using time in innovative ways. (Education Week)
The Albany Times-Union says the state should justify the cost of Regents exams before continuing them.
Florida’s Broward County, which recently laid off teachers, is seeking NYC teachers. (Miami Herald)
The Obama Administration will investigate Los Angeles’s services for immigrant students. (L.A. Times)
Evidence about the success of school turnarounds is largely anecdotal. (USA Today)
The content of proposed national standards will be revealed today. (Washington Post)
An expert says the United States is lagging behind more countries in educational attainment. (Times)
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The Ed Week article re Brooklyn Generations School (see above) rebuts the endless trashing of the “union contract.”
The “contract”, in reality, is a flexible document and allows for a wide range of schedules, the only caveat, it must be done collaboratively with teachers and the union.
The very term collaboration is antithetical to the Tweed espoused Ouchi-model of principal as CEO. In too many schools the defense of the contract against assaults by the administration is the instructional program. Principals issue ukases rather than engaging staffs in dialogues. I have little faith that this administartion in this climate can move beyond their narrow view of accountability without addressing what goes on in schools and classrooms.
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