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March 7, 2013

Rise & Shine: 4 in 5 city grads at CUNY colleges need basic help

by Philissa Cramer, at 6:56 am
  • Four in five city students who entered CUNY’s two-year colleges last year needed remediation. (Post)
  • Followers of the controversial Falun Gong movement want to open six charter schools. (Daily News)
  • Growing numbers of school bus drivers and matrons have been suspended for safety violations. (Post)
  • Few districts applied for Gov. Cuomo’s competitive grants and little money was handed out. (Newsday)
  • The Times says the city should provide free breakfast in more schools, which Mayor Bloomberg opposes.
  • An annual fight to save after-school and child care from budget cuts has begun. (GothamSchools, NY1)
  • Teachers union supporters went to Albany this week as part of a broad lobbying effort. (GothamSchools)
  • Oklahoma’s touted pre-K program has boosted school readiness, but not without big challenges. (WSJ)
  • City officials knew last year about the Bronx Science hazing that led to arrests this week. (Daily News)
  • Educators are learning to teach “close reading,” a skill the Common Core emphasizes. (GothamSchools)
  • The city’s latest campaign against teen pregnancy is drawing fire for its heavy-handed strategy. (Times)
  • Lenore Skenazy: Schools’ efforts to make students safer after Sandy Hook often don’t make sense. (Post)
  • Big spending seems not to have swayed results of Los Angeles’s school board races. (L.A. Times, WSJ)
  • A Chicago commission said the city could safely shut 80 schools that are underused this year. (Tribune)
  • Forty percent of Chicago students are black; in schools that could close, it’s 90 percent. (Sun-Times)
  • Philadelphia officials will vote tonight about closing 27 schools, 10 percent of the city’s total. (Inquirer)
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  • Michael M. (parent still)

    I can’t wait to hear the DOE spin — and see the “Dear Parents” letter — on the headline (and ah, the irony).

    Nearly EIGHTY PERCENT (79.3%) in 2012 per above current link.

    Nearly EIGHTY PERCENT (78.4%) in 2011 per similar story LAST year:
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/community_crisis_IfGXaBkTCSZ1dbTQWP62lO

    Which is an “uptick” of one percent over 2010 per same link.

    Money quote from last year’s Post: ““The sad fact is that the administration that has never stopped congratulating itself for ending ‘social promotion’ has created a new program — ‘social graduation,’ ” UFT President Michael Mulgrew said at a City Council hearing on college readiness.”

    Must be all those large sodas and loud earbuds.

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