Rise & Shine: Federal debt crisis threatens more school cuts

by Geoff Decker, at 7:00 am

A budget watchdog warns that $2 billion in federal school funding could be cut by the fiscal cliff. (Times)
Juan Gonzalez: A school with some higher-than-average test scores are facing closure. (Daily News)
To build better principals, the city wants to recruit and train top teachers earlier. (GothamSchools)
The UFT is suing the education department to see more of Joel Klein’s emails. (GothamSchools, News)
Teenagers with a history of substance abuse receive specialized treatment in a Queens school. (News)
Attendance in displaced schools ticked up as students are getting used to plush bus rides. (Schoolbook)
Thousands of Kansas students have gotten a free pass in science. (Lawrence World Journal via HuffPo)
A test administrator lost the SAT answer sheets for 30 Staten Island students last month. (NY Post)
Sen. Schumer is pushing the state to create two new types of diplomas. (HuffPo, Democrat & Chronicle)

Larry Littlefield

I’ll bet if the UFT gets more of Klein’s e-mails, they will not release them all.

I for one would like to see the e-mails showing what he thought of the 25/55 deal, and his e-mails to and from OMB demanding budget cuts to offset rising teacher pension contributions.

As far as we know he only woke up to the unfairness of that 15 minutes after he resigned.
I noticed that…

Mulgrew, go after Klein and his conspirators.

They don’t want the public to know the travesty of all the dirty deals the DoE made with all the charter school hedge-fund managers to use faulty, flaw-based progress reports to close many public schools. It is time to expose the truth about the devious “reforms” used by them.
I noticed that…

oops

”who used faulty, flaw-based progress reports”

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