For the first time, the DOE is asking Community Education Councils, which have budgets of only $20,000 to foot the bill for increases to the benefits of their administrative assistants. (Post)
With the economy in decline, more families might pick already overcrowded public schools. (Daily News)
Because of overcrowding, some children in Riverdale now must attend schools that are not their zoned school. (Riverdale Press)
At a public hearing in Queens, parents railed against mayoral control. (Queens Chronicle)
Giving rewards to students who pass state tests could violate federal privacy rules, the Texas education commissioner has advised his superintendents. (Dallas News)
Girls living in cities start sports later and continue less often than boys and suburban girls. (AP)
Girls in the United States who are exceptional at math are rarely nurtured, a new study finds. (Times)
One year after starting its charter school experiment, Georgia has lifted its cap on the number of charters. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
New Orleans’ school board is now majority white and stacked with supporters of the state’s post-Katrina takeover of the city’s schools. (Times-Picayune)
Reports arguing that schools should teach “21st-century skills” never explain how to do it, Jay Mathews complains. (Washington Post)
