- Without official “rubber rooms,” teachers charged with misconduct languish in other locations. (Post)
- Alleging that a teacher had an affair with her teenaged son, a mother is suing the city. (Post, Daily News)
- Sources say an education department network leader is living with a principal she supports. (Daily News)
- Nearly all city principals scored at least satisfactory on their evaluations last year. (GothamSchools, NY1)
- Michael Winerip: The mayor’s proposed cuts to after-school programs are catastrophic if real. (Times)
- Admissions letters to city gifted and talented programs went out Friday. (Insideschools, SchoolBook)
- York Prep stands out among city private schools for taking challenging students — and a profit. (Times)
- In letters, representatives of education nonprofits weigh in on Joe Nocera’s Bill Gates interview. (Times)
- AQE’s Billy Easton: Budget cuts and tax caps make improving schools in the state a tough ask. (Times)
- The Daily News says Gov. Cuomo’s education reform panel should turn its watchful eye toward Pearson.
Last week on GothamSchools:
- The city and the unions that sued it have agreed to unusually speedy “turnaround” arbitration. (Friday)
- Judges extended the lives of two charter schools the city wants to close, at least temporarily. (Thursday)
- The Panel for Educational Policy approved a controversial special education budget plan. (Thursday)
- Advocates want the state to take more time to phase in more stringent diploma standards. (Wednesday)
- Parent activists are weighing political campaigns as they look toward Bloomberg’s exit. (Wednesday)
- Some parents are resisting next month’s field tests, when the state will try out new questions. (Tuesday)
- Math teachers, whose topic builds sequentially, see a rocky transition to the Common Core. (Tuesday)
- Proposed rules for a district-level Race to the Top contest could be hard for the city to follow. (Tuesday)
- Olympus Academy uses a blended learning model to let students advance at their own pace. (Monday)