The number of city students receiving emergency contraception more than doubled since 2009. (Post)
The city’s teen pregnancy rate is down 27 percent since 2002; officials credit contraception. (Daily News)
The school bus strike is dividing drivers between those who aren’t working and those who still are. (WSJ)
One family’s fix in the bus strike still involves a three-and-a-half-hour daily commute. (GothamSchools)
Drivers marched on Mayor Bloomberg and UFT members joined a protest over the weekend. (Post, NY1)
The Public School Athletics League is raising academic standards substantially. (GothamSchools)
Gov. Cuomo told city and union officials that he’ll take first steps to impose evaluations on Feb. 22. (Post)
The Daily News says Cuomo’s threat has Bloomberg in a bind but the UFT should concede. (Daily News)
Four legislators who have said they would try to undo mayoral control have now proposed bills. (Post)
The Daily News says a judge who heard last week’s charter school rent case showed blatant bias.
A columnist hammers away at the idea that several parent advocacy groups are union fronts. (Post)
A columnist says last week’s unscripted school closure hearing in D.C. should have impact. (Daily News)
Students at Forest Hills HS need to raise $22,000 to compete in a government contest. (Daily News)
Michelle Rhee says she wishes she had paid more attention to test security in Washington, D.C. (Times)
Harvard University is requiring about 70 students to withdraw after a cheating scandal last year. (Times)
Memphis has barred 18 people who paid others to take their certification exams from teaching. (Times)
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ Norm
I guess all the ed deform astroturf groups are exempt from the Benjamin scrutiny. Michael Benjamin a U-rated politician who left politics for —— (someone tell me what he does in real life) a purely owned subsidiary of the ed deform community, is made of pure astro turf. I taped his pathetic performance at the Bill Perkins charter school hearings a few years ago where he embarrassed himself with the amount of misinformation he spewed. A quick look at his bio will show he has lived off the public political teat forever.
flerp
Norm — I can’t tell you how nice it is to see a comment from an actual human that doesn’t include the word “bloomterd.”
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ Norm
Thanks flerp for reclassifying me as a human, a term my pals at the UFT are loathe to use. Would Benterd be appropriate in this case? One day you have to come over and watch the 7 hours of Perkins hearing tapes I made. Better than the Super Bowl.
Ellen
Hey, every knock is a boost! If you read between the lines, every time Benjamin mentions any name or organization that is free publicity. But the real message to take away from the piece is fear: fear that the listening public is learning more and more about the mis-guided and misanthropic past 12 years. Remembering the past, we must always move forward eager to avoid the mis-steps of the past and ready to move a progressive agenda.
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