Bronx Science track is off after team members were charged with hazing. (Times, Post, Daily News, NY1)
Mayor Bloomberg is personally supporting four Young Men’s Initiative charter schools for 2014. (Post)
Michael Benjamin: The DOE could avoided losing its parent group to the UFT by empowering it. (Post)
City gifted programs’ racial composition “is what it is” but should change, Chancellor Walcott said. (WSJ)
After an Obama nod, Brooklyn’s P-TECH is getting worldwide attention, and two replicas. (Daily News)
A student was rushed to the hospital after collapsing at Cardozo High School on Monday. (Daily News)
The Queens student with one of the world’s worst school commutes has had it harder after Sandy. (NY1)
Arne Duncan rolled back his comments about sequestration costing teachers their jobs. (Reuters)
Eight successful students from a wide range of high schools won New York Times scholarships. (Times)
Like New York, Texas could stop mandating spending on private tutoring firms. (Dallas Morning News)
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What a joke Michael Benjamin is pretending that Mona Davids’ “parents union” is not astroturf. Remember “Won’t Back Down” her favorite movie? Strip the plural off “parents” and you have reality, a group of one. Everyone in the city, including Gotham, knows all about this farce and posting a link to Benjamin’s distorted article is an endorsement of a piece of fiction disguised as news.
As for CPAC – go to any charter school hearing and you will see CPAC people taking a stand on charters that the UFT is afraid to — opposing out and out any co-location of a charter. Tweed has ignored CPAC from the beginning and the reps have always been independent. A few buses and some meals? Gee, when Eva does that all the time to create her astroturf we don’t see Benjamin and the Post complaining. Benjamin should get out of his bubble once in a while and see the real world. But then again he has a dog in the race. He is made of the finest astroturf himself.
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