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By | September 17, 2010, 11:30pm UTC - In a twist, parents at PS 42 in the Rockaways urge the city to shut their school down. (Daily News)
- A fight with a principal led a Haitian immigrant mom in Queens to faint, have a panic attack. (NY1)
- An East Harlem charter school with no Jewish students held classes on Rosh Hashanah. (DNAInfo)
- Fifty people braved the tornado to discuss the city’s plans for overhauling special ed. (Insideschools)
- The family of Nicole Suriel, who drowned on a school trip, will sue the city for $20M. (Daily News)
- Rhee says her reform efforts lost Fenty his election. Her regret? Poor P.R. work. (Ed Week)
- Handicapping the likely options, Bill Turque concludes Rhee will probably leave. (Washington Post)
- A report that Rhee’s staff members are already getting poached by “talent hawks.” (Rick Hess)
- Educating women improves a country’s child mortality more than economic growth. (Ed Week)
- An argument that the current education debate suffers from a “teacher quarantine.” (Tween Teacher)
- The Gates Foundation should invest in evening the education PhD gap. (Inside Higher Ed)
- The NYT Mag’s education issue looks at educational technology, and I look at cell phones. (NYT)