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An email telling Brooklyn Tech students they had the day off turned out to be a hoax. David Byrne suggests sending more state money to arts in schools instead of operas and symphonies. Richard Whitmire says a Bed-Stuy boys charter school is the “mos …

…  describes the current state of the embattled school.  Mildly Melancholy wonders if it’s not time for a December doldrums mental health …

…  next term: more community schools, less Klein. And Mildly Melancholy’s students think she has special powers — teaching and …

…  experts is tackling the subject of school turnarounds. Mildly Melancholy, who has been to a lot of professional development, spells out what …

2,000 needy Brooklyn students are going back to school with new backpacks, courtesy of the NAACP Tony Avella says he would eliminate the School Construction Authority. A teacher says the first days of school are exciting, but also “intensely painful …

…  a good time to move to NYC, according to Judy Baum. Mildly Melancholy, a teacher who was fired last year, had her first day at a new …

In other states, charter schools usually don’t outperform district-run schools, a new report (pdf) concludes. A different report (pdf), by a group that boosts charter schools, gives New York’s state charter law a B. States with charter school caps ( …

…  For America founder Wendy Kopp turned down a job in D.C. Mildly Melancholy misses her kids and wonders if they miss her too. D.C. schools …

…  charter school teacher who goes by Mildly Melancholy first got our attention here when she was unceremoniously fired, in …  are some other highlights from the robust conversation Mildly Melancholy started. Commenter Schooldays, who thinks urban …

…  they get how monumental this event really was later on. Mildly Melancholy, who left teaching earlier this month, wondered whether her former …