Rise & Shine: State evaluation plan debuts to timeline concerns

By 
Philissa Cramer
 | April 5, 2011, 10:05am UTC
  • The state’s teacher evaluation task force released its recommendations to union support. (Daily News)
  • But schools say evaluation changes can’t happen as fast as Gov. Cuomo wants. (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
  • A group of district superintendents is the latest to sign onto the bid to end “last in, first out” layoffs. (Post)
  • Schools Chancellor Cathie Black is polling miserably. (GothamSchools, Times, Post, WNYC, NY1, AP)
  • Top DOE official Santiago Taveras is leaving for the private sector. (GothamSchools, Times, Daily News)
  • Rochester’s schools chief, DOE alum J.C. Brizard, might be up for big-city jobs. (Democrat & Chronicle)
  • Park Slope’s PS 107 is moving its pre-K program to make room for more kindergartners. (Brooklyn Paper)
  • A 6-year-old Lower Manhattan private school that has struggled has been sold to a for-profit firm. (Times)