Rise & Shine: Thousands of students start summer school today

by Philissa Cramer, at 7:19 am

Summer school kicks off today, and about 33,000 city students should be in attendance. (NY1)
A lawyer who says his life was changed by Chess-in-the-Schools has now joined its board. (WSJ)
The unemployment rate for New York City teens is higher than the national rate for teens. (Post)
The city’s costs for transporting students with disabilities include $100,000 a year for one student. (Post)
Michael Powell: A teacher run out for speaking up for students with disabilities was vindicated. (Times)
De la Salle Academy, a private school for poor students, gives explicit lessons on media literacy. (NY1)
The man behind a junior high-college partnership’s start 30 years ago says it has worked. (Daily News)
Across the country, 500 public schools offer single-sex education, and the ACLU isn’t happy. (CSM)
More states are enacting laws that tie third-grade promotion to passing a reading test. (USA Today)

Last week on GothamSchools:

The arbitrator who reversed “turnaround” hiring explained his logic in a withering ruling. (Friday)
The principal of Truman High issues diagnostic exams because she doesn’t trust test scores. (Friday)
A student’s efforts to rally against Grover Cleveland high’s closure won her an internship. (Friday)
For now, confusion is reigning at the 24 schools that had been set to undergo turnaround. (Thursday)
The city’s summer youth jobs program, seen to boost school-year achievement, kicked off. (Thursday)
Students who overcame obstacles to graduate describe the support they got on the way. (Tuesday)
The city argued that the turnaround hiring issues shouldn’t have been arbitrated at all. (Tuesday)

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Caramba, dude. No one likes summer school. It’s good to threaten kids with from time to time, but I’m sad to see them actually go there.
Ellen

Why is it that the city is “saddled” with the cost? That child’s parents pay taxes, pay for medical coverage, contribute tothe mosaic that is NYC. Why isn’t it that the city is providing a service to a student? What would be the cost to all of us if this child stayed at home, receiving medical/nursing services only and being isolated from other youngsters? Have we become so venal, so angry, so mean spirited that we would deny access?
Sometimes I look around and see only a community of complainers. Our reporters seek

to embarass not inform. Our city’s leaders seek to punish employees, not inspire them. (No I am not, nor have I ever been a teacher nor has my spouse been a city employee). What’s happened to NYC, once the city of opportunity and now the city of mean.
Celia Oyler

Thanks. Ellen.

I guess some people would be fine with some human beings being exiled into basements and nursing homes. Oh, wait. We already have that:: over 2 million people with disabilities in nursing homes and hundreds of thousands of them are young adults.

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