Almost $20 million in bonus money is going to educators at schools that raised test scores last year; principals whose schools earned the highest raw scores on the school progress reports are also earning thousands of dollars in bonuses. (Daily News, NY1, Post, Sun, Times)
A Bronx finance teacher explains how she teaches about recent economic problems. (NPR)
A new private high school will open in Greenwich Village next fall. (Times)
The District of Columbia youth jobs program, which overspent its budget by $30 million, is called “haphazard” and “chaotic” by the D.C. inspector general. (Washington Post)
A study of five KIPP charter schools in the Bay Area found that students out-performed their peers at regular public schools, but student and teacher attrition was high. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Two education policy experts are debating Barack Obama’s education proposals at the Campaign Stops blog. (Times)