The timeline issue that ended talks here is not seen as a problem in the rest of the state. (Journal News)
Chancellor Walcott says blame for the impasse should fall directly on the UFT’s president. (Daily News)
The Daily News says state education chief John King was wrong to point the blame at Mayor Bloomberg.
The Post endorses Christine Quinn’s promise to make the city’s customer service more like Zappos’.
A city education official takes the unorthodox view that students might be better off without school. (Post)
Some city schools are buying new technology meant to help students with disabilities. (Daily News)
Nationally, the high school graduation rate has climbed to its highest point in over three decades. (WSJ)
Prominent educators are supporting teachers who boycotted a Washington State test. (Seattle Times)
Larry Littlefield
The bus strike is a disaster for those among the 150,000 children who actually absolutely need the services. But I’ll bet many other parents and children are finding the alternatives acceptable. This in itself will reduce bus driver employment and costs the longer the strike goes on. More will opt for long walks, parent chauffering and Metrocards next year.
This reminds me of the 1970s, the last time school budgets were crimped by weakening tax revenues and risng pension costs. At that time, outside the cities, if taxpayers voted down the school budget, as frequently occurred, the school districts were put on “austerity budgets.” And one feature of the austerity budgets was no school buses. My wife went without for years and years; I never took a school bus.
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