- Raising school lunch fees is one of the city’s proposed strategies for closing a budget gap. (Times, Post)
- One Far Rockaway family’s story shows how hard it is for storm-affected families to get to school. (NY1)
- More city schools will reopen in their own buildings on Tuesday. (GothamSchools, Daily News, NY1)
- Mayor Bloomberg is planning to dock the pay of city workers who didn’t report during Sandy. (WSJ)
- Families in some schools have had to weigh the value of school against a lack of heat inside. (Times)
- Among teachers that arbitrators declined to fire is one who let a second-grader get lost for hours. (Post)
- After cutting its test monitoring program, the city now seems poised to bulk it back up. (GothamSchools)
- The Times praises federal authorities for taking up the complaint against the city’s elite high school test.
- Nationally, school closures are up 60 percent in the last decade, angering some communities. (Reuters)
Last week on GothamSchools:
- Some city school board members said the city is getting back to business too soon after Sandy. (Friday)
- City attendance and enrollment data underscore a class divide on the Rockaway peninsula. (Thursday)
- A city high school that embraces the water was fortunate not to be flooded during Sandy. (Thursday)
- Attendance was low all week in schools that relocated sites because of storm damage. (Wednesday)
- Students in a building that was used as a shelter said they were nervous about returning. (Wednesday)
- Teachers at a Brooklyn school that got its building back quickly said many issues remained. (Tuesday)
- Students at democracy-themed charter schools spent Election Day trying to get out the vote. (Tuesday)
- Teachers and families also used Election Day to volunteer or raise funds for Sandy relief. (Tuesday)
- Schools across the city scrambled to create space-sharing plans, including in Red Hook. (Tuesday)
- City Council and union officials said they were worried about new co-location logistics. (Monday)
- The city reversed a short-lived ban on letting some charter schools open on Election Day. (Monday)
- Schools officials stood at each closed building to redirect families as schools reopened. (Monday)