The federal “sequester” cuts would slash more than $59 million from the city’s schools. (Gannett)
A court blocked the Empire Center’s request for the names of New York’s retired teachers. (AP)
The Common Core ELA standards are now available in a Spanish translation. (Learning the Language)
An unexpectedly large portion of teachers opted out of Florida’s traditional pension plan. (Teacher Beat)
In Chicago, concerns about what will happen to special ed students at closing schools. (DNAInfo)
Union opponents in L.A. are trying to match its “ground game” in the school board elections. (LASR)
Arne Duncan visited the Harbor School today and pronounced himself “blown away.” (Twitter, Photo)
Two boys, two different reactions to no-excuses discipline at Noble schools in Chicago. (EdWeek)
Two of our colleagues have written books on urban schools. Meet them in March. (Teachers College)
A five-year-old Bronx boy is in stable condition after being accidentally shot in the shoulder. (NYDN)
On his radio show this morning, Mayor Bloomberg had no apologies for the lack of an eval deal. (AP)
Michael M. (parent still)
Well, as long as GS is going to reference radio coverage… there was an excellent segment this morning on WNYC’s Morning Edition:
“Activists have long warned about the widening achievement gap between white and minority students. The Equity and Excellence Commission, a federally chartered group of about 30 education experts, is recommending changes to the funding and delivery of education. Steve Inskeep talks to three members of the commission: Chris Edley, dean of University of California Berkeley law school, Stanford, education professor Linda Darling-Hammond and Eric Hanushek, a Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and Stanford professor.”
“ERIC HANUSHEK: If we could bring our black students and our Hispanic students up to the level of our white students we would move forward in the international rankings considerably – up to the middle of the developed countries.
INSKEEP: Would you note carefully what he says there? Such is the state of American education that he is hoping to get us up to average.”
Pogue
This is available too…
El núcleo común apesta.
Gracias.
noryeln
Now if we could get the courts to block Gates and company from handing out our children’s names and personal detail I’d believe this country could shake off the affects of the privateers.!
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