- The state teachers union is threatening not to endorse any pro-charter cap lift gubernatorial candidates.
- Mayor Bloomberg said city students’ scores on the NAEP reading exam were “encouraging.”
- Following Steven Brill’s article, Kim Gittleson offers data and nuance to the charter/district debate.
- Megan McArdle of the Atlantic thinks Brill is on his way to writing a “killer book” about teacher unions.
- Facing a pay cut after years of hard work, a technology teacher says she’s tired of being a sucker.
- On “Teacher Appreciation Day” while TV ads slammed the union, students rallied around their teacher.
- Gateway HS’s leaders and parents are divided over whether to add a 6th grade, as the city plans to do.
- Chaz says the city is already reneging on its parts of its rubber room agreement with the union.
- After pushing a class of grade-focused students to think bigger, a teacher is rewarded.
- D.C. schools were the only ones to make significant gains in both 4th and 8th grade reading since 07.
- San Francisco schools are ending summer school because of budget cuts, but aren’t sad to see it go.
- A Philly middle school is targeting younger students who show signs of becoming dropouts.
- An analysis shows that the ESEA reauthorization would let a lot of mediocre schools skate by.
- New rules in Georgia would ban seclusion and certain restraints if the board votes them in.
- And critics of the four school turnaround plans are finding some support in Congress.