nightcap
May 11, 2010
Remainders: Gap in charters’ special ed service real, but not huge
- NYC charters enroll fewer special education students, but the gap isn’t as big as the union says.
- Today’s evaluation deal got mixed reactions from Paterson, Silver, and the school board association.
- Chaz wonders if the teacher evaluation deal will lead to the end of teacher tenure.
- The Chicago schools chief says he’s firing bad principals, but he may be exploiting normal turnover.
- A Brooklyn teachers union chapter leader calls on parents to get political over school budgets.
- The SUNY charter authorizer has already received 22 applications for its remaining 12 school spots.
- Suburban school districts in NY are freezing teachers’ salaries or cutting back raises.
- But Mike Petrilli at Fordham isn’t impressed by some of their sacrifices.
- Students at Buffalo’s Oracle Charter School made a video pitch for Obama to visit them.
- Rick Hess says the education bailout bill may be popular, but it’s not financially sound.
- New federal funding guidelines mean that Stuyvesant HS qualifies for Title I money.
- Diane Ravitch: there’s a double standard for interpreting students’ test scores.
- Peter Murphy says union fliers are claiming “big corporations” are behind the charter cap lift.
- A DOE official’s comment on teacher quality has Miss Eyre wondering if she would try the ‘burbs.
- Why would Duncan tell a reporter his agenda has “no public opposition“? Linda Perlstein asks.
- Norm Scott says Mulgrew’s big election win has given him license to make unpopular calls.
- Either home schooling is very popular in Houston, or the district is hiding HS drop outs.
- And NPR interviews Doug Lemov about the teaching techniques he’s studied.
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