- Mayor Bloomberg’s budget will offer teachers the options of a lower pay raise or layoffs tomorrow.
- The Obama administration launched its effort to rewrite NCLB today.
- It doesn’t really look like the federal education budget will experience much of a freeze.
- This is the time for UFT President Michael Mulgrew to be a mensch, not a wuss, a teacher writes.
- Philissa went on the Brian Lehrer show this morning to talk about the school closure votes.
- Four students are going right from high school graduation to the ranks of the FDNY.
- Richard Kessler says last night’s school closure vote was a reminder of what mayoral control is all about.
- Brooklyn BP Marty Markowitz thinks it’s a bad call to keep PAVE charter school in P.S. 15.
- Burned out parents are more likely to have kids who are burned out at school.
- An NYC English teacher gives a run-down of last night’s panel for educational policy meeting.
- Corey Bunje Bower says the school closing process is undemocratic, but it’s still the right thing to do.
- InsideSchools has video of parents and teachers testifying before the panel.
- Jay Mathews says it’s fine to freeze education spending: schools need more ideas, not more money.
- Eduflack submits his own education-focused state of the union speech.
- Chicago is developing an assessment to see if preschool programs are really working.
- Rick Hess wants to know who the RttT judges are, says Duncan’s approach is anything but transparent.
- And the U.S. DOE says it’s going to expand eligibility for districts seeking turnaround money.