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July 10, 2012

Rise & Shine: Amid cheating, hope for Stuy’s alumni groups

by Philissa Cramer, at 7:21 am
  • A $1 million donation is seen as a chance to merge Stuyvesant HS’s long-divided alumni groups. (WSJ)
  • 71 Stuy students who cheated will retake exams. (GothamSchools, Times, Post, Daily News, WSJ, NY1)
  • The Post says the consequences for the Stuy students were too light; they should have been expelled.
  • Schools that try to run “bridge” programs for students who aren’t behind get little help. (GothamSchools)
  • A program to train city high school students in computer programming is recruiting now. (Daily News)
  • Parents from the Children’s School in Brooklyn want the city to offer space for expansion. (Daily News)
  • The Daily News says the turnaround arbitrator didn’t understand: Schools are not buildings but cultures.
  • Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed off on a law to combat cyberbullying starting next year. (S.I. Advance)
  • A new report crunches federal data and finds that many students say school is too easy. (USA Today)
  • David Brooks: Poor children are losing ground because affluent parents are doing more. (Times)
  • Cleveland’s teachers union is working with bipartisan leaders to overhaul how teachers are fired. (WSJ)
  • The head of the Cato Institute says America has too many teachers, unless they are used better. (WSJ)
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  • Anonymous

    The story on the Cato Institute is a misdirected link.

  • Philissa Cramer

    Sorry about that. It’s fixed now.

  • Anonymous

    That was fast!

  • Larry Littlefield

    The Census Bureau got its FY 2010 public school finance data up recently, and I wrote a post about my tabulation here.

    http://www.r8ny.com/blog/larry_littlefield/census_bureau_fy_2010_education_finance_data.html

    Room Eight is pretty hit or miss these days, so if you just want the spreadsheets or can’t get to the post the spreadsheets are posted here.

    http://ia600608.us.archive.org/26/items/PublicSchoolSpendingPerStudent/

    The Bureau’s original data is here.

    http://www.census.gov/govs/school/

    The biggest difference between my compilation and the Bureau’s report is that I apply a cost of living factor to spending in higher wage areas such as Downstate NY, thus making the extent to which NYC is above the U.S. average seem smaller.  You can figure out what I did by examining the formulas in the output cell — in the big spreadsheet the data as downloaded is to the right.

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