Remainders: What schools can do with $500, and $1.3 billion

by Philissa Cramer, at 9:33 pm

A special education teacher lists what she bought her classroom with an extra $500. (Ms Speducate)
Ed Secretary Arne Duncan listed $1.3 billion in “sequester” cuts to special ed and Title I. (Politics K-12)
A teacher preferred one of the special ed classes at a city KIPP school over the other. (Gary Rubinstein)
A teacher describes the technical challenges he ran into as his students made videos. (NYC Educator)
Illinois educators are alarmed by a state proposal to do away with special ed class size caps. (Catalyst)
Los Angeles isn’t the only place where national education reformers are going local. (HuffPo/Hechinger)
A quick and dirty summary of what’s going on in L.A. right now says the union still has an edge. (Russo)
A study of teachers who used Student Learning Objectives found benefits for students. (Teacher Beat)
Some Massachusetts lawmakers want schools to stop writing home about students’ weight. (BuzzFeed)
On Business Computer Applications and Entrepreneurship High School’s closure hearing. (ICE-UFT)
A warning: Without a good definition for teacher leadership, there will be few takers. (Future of Teaching)
Building on what P-TECH is doing in Brooklyn, the state and IBM will partner on schools. (NY.gov)
A mother describes tumbling down the slippery slope toward doing her son’s homework. (Insideschools)

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