The feds are okay with New York State’s Race to the Top work, but they’re watching. (WSJ, Daily News)
Mayor Bloomberg didn’t bash the UFT on Thursday, signaling that teacher eval talks are ongoing. (Post)
Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said she would really like the city to reach a deal on its own. (NY1)
Movement for a pause on co-locations has the charter sector worried, and divided. (GothamSchools)
Democracy Prep charter schools will get an organization to help students after graduation. (Daily News)
John Liu is the first mayoral hopeful to weigh on the Panel for Educational Policy. (GothamSchools)
The school bus drivers union says the city, not the union, is behind rising bus costs. (NY1, Daily News)
Politicians are renewing a perennial push to make Lunar New Year a possible school holiday. (DNAInfo)
Guest
You have to love the narrative that the daily news is locked into – charter schools can save students from failing public schools. They wrote,
“Democracy Prep drew praise last summer when state test scores revealed a drastic turnaround of Harlem Prep, where Andrew & Co. orchestrated a radical overahaul that included firing 47 of the public school’s 54 former staffers.”
The problem with this story is that the school they turned around Harlem Day Charter school and the 47 teachers that were fired were charter school teachers, not public teachers.
Akademos
Anyone notice a dramatic spike in Jan Regents scores due to dumbed down exams?
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.