Skip to main contentRemainders: Swine flu causes three more school closures
By | May 16, 2009, 12:47am UTC - Here’s video from a rally yesterday to stop school closings, organized by teachers.
- Building trust among educators and students makes school improvement more likely.
- Roughly 45 teachers protesting possible layoffs were arrested in LA. Thousands called in sick.
- PS 9 students will have to retake the gifted & talented test after their first tests were lost.
- Two more Queens schools and a Brooklyn school are being closed due to swine flu.
- Rumor has it that 40,000 people could show up at tomorrow’s Education Equality Project rally in DC.
- Tom Vander Ark, who’s doing PR for EEP, explains the idea behind the rally.
- Mayor Bloomberg has spent $18.7 bmillion of his own money already on his reelection campaign.
- The hunt for prekindergarten space in Greenwich Village was successful.
- Richard Kessler explains how he’s organizing a campaign to restore arts education funding.
- A teacher says she feels sorry for a child who has lunch detention until the end of the year.