The city is not cutting off students from free NCLB tutoring, but it is restricting eligibility. (SchoolBook)
The city sent back up to $7.5 million in state funds because it couldn’t commit to new evaluations. (Post)
The UFT is calling Joel Klein and others to testify about how they helped schools. (GothamSchools, Post)
A policy paper emerged from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.’s education summit. (Daily News)
Protesters rallied against cuts to after-school and child care in the city’s proposed budget. (SchoolBook)
Schools the city wants to “turn around” struggled to pitch themselves to applicants. (GothamSchools)
Perennial city winners, Murrow High School’s chess team won a national championship. (Daily News)
Buffalo’s federal funding is again at risk after the state rejected its teacher evaluation plan. (Buffalo News)
Annual data show that black students, especially boys, are suspended more often nationally. (Times)
Larry Littlefield
“The UFT wants former Chancellor Joel Klein to take a break from running News Corporation’s education division to explain just how the Department of Education helped schools it was once barred from closing.”
The UFT knows damn well what the answer is. The city increased per student spending, massively, to a level far above the U.S. average even with the cost of living accounted for, and above the average for the suburbs and New Jersey. And it used the added money for the one thing the UFT asserted was THE most important thing – earlier retirement on richer terms.
If that wasn’t enough to make all the schools great, then the rest of us were robbed. How about having Klein testify about that?
“My big problem with the rollout of the Common Core is that, if some teachers hadn't read this article, they might have felt like they were the only ones confused about the CCS rollout too.”
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