Fewer graduates from small high schools Mayor Bloomberg started are college-ready. (Daily News)
Chancellor Walcott outlined policies to improve family engagement. (GothamSchools, Times, WSJ)
The Post calls Tuesday night’s PEP meeting protest “an ugly new chapter in a sad old story.”
Students at 15 schools are learning about the health and economic impact of their food choices. (Times)
Science Skills High School kept four bathrooms locked, limiting 600+ students to one toilet. (Daily News)
Not a single high school in Queens got an F on its progress report this year. (Daily News)
Riverdale elementary and middle schools are crowded but high schools have space. (Riverdale Press)
Michigan’s district for struggling schools is funded mainly with private money. (Detroit Free Press)
The Times says proposed revisions to the federal education law let states too far off the hook.
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Did you actually include an editorial from the NY Post? Well, they were certainly correct in this: it is a new chapter in a sad old story —of parents, teachers, students and other stakeholders being ignored but this time they weren’t going to take it.
And how about this one? “Which makes Walcott’s chief task clear: turning around a
system that churns out hundreds of thousands of kids without a basic education.” Do they mean the very same system that Walton and Bloomberg have run for a decade? How nice to see them get half of something right.
Did the Post actually think the UFT was involved in any way in this when in fact many of the teachers involved have been critics of the UFT? – note how the UFT never shut down a PEP – and when they walked out after some disruption in Feb. there was much relief by the Tweedies because the meeting could have been stopped dead in its tracks and delayed the votes to close schools.
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