Remainders: Four ways to do layoffs, and no clear favorites

by Philissa Cramer, at 6:07 pm

Ruben Brosbe uses basic math to show that his students have spent many hours taking tests recently.
Charter school funding is rising while other school budgets are falling; both have growing enrollment.
The City Council passed a resolution requiring the city to try to fix schools instead of closing them.
Eight hundred Insideschools readers are evenly split on four different ways to carry out layoffs.
Two East Village moms propose letting schools that reduce their energy consumption keep the savings.
Speaking at a fundraiser for Jewish education, Chancellor Klein described his recent visit to Jerusalem.
Controversially, a Brooklyn charter school chain is offering students $100 to get friends to apply.
Figuring out who decides what qualifies as passing on state tests is an essential task, Fred Smith argues.
For the first time ever, the federal government is funding successful charter school replication.
Eduwonk hears that there could be only 70 USDOE innovation fund winners, from 1,669 applications.
Arne Duncan says he supports Tom Harkin’s education jobs bill, but the White House isn’t sure it does.
Rick Hess doesn’t think much of a California congresswoman’s idea for funding school improvement.

carolineSF

When I visited KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy, there were posters plastered all over the school offering prizes (Gap and Old Navy gift cards) to get new families to apply. I think someone is being naive to think that’s novel. And that’s at KIPP, where (all chorus together) “all KIPP schools have long waiting lists,” according to Paul Tough in the NYT.
An Effective Teacher

CarolineSF – that makes sense. Fabricating a demand by offering awards will help “prove” to the State and its citizens that more Charter Schools are needed to meet this demand.
Larry Littlefield

Is charter school funding rising while funding for other public schools is falling? Or is funding for other public schools going increasingly to the retired? I think it is the latter.

@leoniehaimson The city didnt automatically generate TDRs for teachers at charter schools; the charter schools had to opt in to the program. in reply to leoniehaimson 8 hrs ago
RT @blogsbe: @gothamschools we need a good hashtag for the release of @NYCSchools' teacher data reports. I'm thinking #TDRmageddon 11 hrs ago
New York's State Ed Department is restoring federal SIG funding for 5 school districts — NYC is not among them. 10 lost funds over evals 12 hrs ago
RT @educationweek: Study: Asian Students Uncounted, Underserved in N.Y.C. Schools http://t.co/rZF1EEkI 12 hrs ago
Also, Teacher Data Reports generated for charter school teachers at their schools' requests won't be released this week along with others. 12 hrs ago
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