Only four principals failed the city’s principal rating system, even after it was overhauled. (Daily News)
A fifth of city teachers missed more than the permitted 10 days of school last year. (Wall Street Journal)
The city’s two-year-old Attendance Court is meant to help truant teens return to school. (Times)
Special education adds complexity and stakes to the debate over charter schools. (Columbia Spectator)
Potential challengers to State Sen. Bill Perkins are busily touting their charter school support. (Post)
A movie about getting into Harlem Success charter schools, is playing at the Tribeca Film Festival. (Post)
Public school students who are Tribeca Film Fellows are screening their own short movies. (NBC NY)
A teacher at the Bronx’s PS 117 allegedly negotiated an illicit gun sale from his classroom. (Daily News)
Investors in D.C.’s schools say they want to be able to leave if Michelle Rhee does. (Washington Post)
A task force recommended that Los Angeles’s school board tie test scores to teacher tenure. (L.A. Times)
In response to criticism, Chicago will now let families appeal magnet school rejections. (Chicago Tribune)
Budget cuts could cause class sizes in Chicago to rise by as much as 25 percent. (Chicago Tribune)
http://www.queensteacher2.blogspot.com primadonna
With all the supposed incompetent teachers, failing schools, it’s amazing the city has only pinpointed 4 principals for failure. Hmmmmm.
Pogue
4 principal failures, yet they attempted to close 19 schools. Bloomberg and Klein have no idea what they are doing other than trying to bust a union. Bloomberg and Klein = Pathetic and Shameful.
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