Skip to main contentRemainders: Some movement in bus strike, as families struggle
By | January 25, 2013, 11:20pm UTC - School bus companies and the striking drivers union are set to meet without the mayor. (Daily News)
- In an open letter, a mother describes how her family has been disrupted by the bus strike. (SchoolBook)
- Shelly Silver says penalizing city students over evals will be a hard budget sell. (NY1 via Capital Tonight)
- In a mayoral debate, Tom Allon called NYCHA’s former chief the “Cathie Black of housing.” (Capital NY)
- N.J. supe (and former NYC-er) Chris Cerf is meeting with a senate ed committee, finally. (NJ Spotlight)
- Check into a school on FourSquare and now you can pull up its socioeconomic profile. (ProPublica)
- A teacher annotates the instructions he got when working at a distributed grading center. (NYC Educator)
- A teacher theorizes that “accuse and remove,” not charge, rules teacher discipline now. (NYCDOENuts)
- One of the teachers who has been accused and removed is starting a rubber room TV show. (Portelos)
- Newtown, Conn., is asking not to take state tests due to school shooting-induced trauma. (Answer Sheet)
- After-school advocates say Gov. Cuomo’s extended day proposal is in line with the times. (Times-Union)
- A teacher describes how she took steps to let students own their learning. (No Sleep Til Summer 1, 2)
- Retired police officers are still angling to become as armed school guards on Staten Island. (JJIE)
- Parents who clicked on Chicago’s schools chief’s Common Core link got a racy surprise. (Chicagoist)