Now that Mayor Bloomberg is pushing for a third term, it will be difficult for lawmakers not to think about him as they debate the future of mayoral control of the city’s schools. (Times)
Parents and community leaders will urge the DOE to address school overcrowding with a rally at City Hall and the launch of A Better Capital Plan campaign. (Daily News)
UFT president Randi Weingarten says she will ask the DOE to reconsider its ban on teachers wearing political buttons in class. (Post)
Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology’s new Urban Initiative aims to prepare students to work in underserved urban communities. (MarketWatch)
Students from poor families have narrowed the achievement gap in the Washington, D.C. area since the start of No Child Left Behind. (Washington Post)
An estimated half million readers all read the same book in Jumpstart’s effort to break the world record and encourage early childhood literacy. (NY Times)
One add-on to the bailout bill passed by the Senate is an expansion of a program that helps rural schools. (NY Times)
The DOE will rate teachers based on their students’ test scores, but an agreement with the UFT prevents the ratings from being used in tenure decisions or evaluations. (Times)
A new charter middle school in Brooklyn’s District 15 will focus on the arts. (Brooklyn Paper)
To make sure he retains mayoral control of schools, Mayor Bloomberg is helping state Republicans try to retain a majority in the State Assembly. (Post)
Schools in the Washington, D.C., area appear to be closing the achievement gap. (Washington Post)
Boston’s new superintendent is planning a major reorganization of the city’s schools. (Boston Globe)
An 1,500-person education protest outside the Cubs-Dodgers playoff game attracted little attention. (Chicago Sun-Times)
Chester Finn of the Fordham Institute argues that the city’s progress reports are “so obvious, so sensible and so gutsy.” (Forbes)
UCLA management professor William Ouchi praises the “dynamic innovation” in New York’s schools under Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership. (Post)
The $200 XO laptop, designed for use in developing countries, is coming to the NYC schools. (Post, NY1)
Fewer New York youth are smoking, says the state department of health. (Post)
Washington, D.C. teachers union head George Parker must decide whether to bring Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s controversial teacher pay proposal to a vote this week. (Washington Post)
John E. Deasy, superintendent of the Prince George’s County, Maryland Public Schools, is leaving to head the education division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Washington Post)
The Inner City Education Foundation, a charter school group, plans to expand from 13 to 35 schools in South Los Angeles in the next eight years. (LA Times)
A group of scientists warned the Texas Board of Education to keep religion and politics out of the state’s new science standards. (Houston Chronicle)
By the end of the year, all principals will be able to buy $100 laptops designed for use in developing countries, which two elementary schools are already using. (Sun)
State funding for the city’s schools was central to a debate between two State Senate candidates. (Daily News)
Federal education spending is sure to be affected by the financial crisis, no matter who becomes the next president. (Education Week)
Schools in Washington, D.C., launched their incentives programs yesterday. (Washington Post)
Learning science is especially difficult for students who are just learning English, but a new program aims to help teachers introduce challenging scientific vocabulary. (Education Week)
School Progress Report scores could have been calculated several different ways; using two years of data, for example, would have resulted in more score stability. (Times)
This year’s allocation of funding, meant to close budget gaps, left some schools with much of their funding restricted while others received more discretionary funding. (Sun)
The Department of Education is seeking a waiver from the state that would allow students to complete credits online. (Post)
Recent economic problems could threaten Wall Street’s contributions to the Fund for Public Schools, which supports projects like mentoring and school performance bonuses. (Daily News)
A bill before Congress — The No Child Left Inside Act — would expand environmental education. (Post)
A new study finds that attending many activities may be more stressful for parents than for their children. (Washington Post)
Detroit’s student enrollment is shrinking, leaving the city in difficult financial straits. (Times)
Urban districts face high turnover among their superintendents. (AP)
Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum proposes changes to school governance. (Daily News)
Jay Mathews argues that principals should be able to fire unsuccessful teachers. (Washington Post)
The budget crunch is bringing the DOE’s policy on excessed teachers to the fore, and the UFT weighs in. (Times, Sun)
The City Council today is considering a bill that would close the schools for two Muslim holidays. (Sun)
Half of the 7th graders who received payments for their school performance last year will continue in the program this year. (Post)
Teachers in Riverdale filed grievances against the DOE because their classes are larger than their contract allows. (Riverdale Press)
District 2′s new middle schools will be part of K-8 schools. (Downtown Express)
The DOE could reject downtown Manhattan parents’ first choice for a new school site. (Downtown Express)
New research suggests that the more students a middle or high school teacher has in total, the worse his or her students do, Jay Mathews writes. (Washington Post)
Harvard prof and NYC Chief Equality Officer Roland Fryer, Jr. is leaving his DOE post to open the Educational Innovation Lab, which will test new ideas in education. (Times)
The percentage of New York City’s new teachers who are black has dropped dramatically since 2002. (Sun)
Attorney Samantha Biletsky, new chief ethics officer for the DOE, held the same post at the Comptroller’s Office under Alan Hevesi, who left after pleading guilty to fraud. (Post)
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn writes in to the Post to clarify her views on school governance. (Post)
Edison Schools entrepreneur Chris Whittle has withdrawn plans to build two internationally-oriented private schools, one in the D.C. suburbs and one in New York City. (Washington Post)
Education programs in prisons are growing nationwide. (USA Today)
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