Skip to main contentRemainders: Obama leaves door open to endorsing Bloomberg
By | May 8, 2009, 4:11am UTC - Barack Obama is not endorsing Bloomberg for mayor — not yet, anyway.
- Beth Fertig notes that test scores rose across the state, not just in New York City.
- Richard Kessler says that attrition and even layoffs could mean schools lose art teachers.
- Questions about Obama’s proposed budget, like: How will that merit pay square with local resistance?
- Charlie Barone predicts that charter-wary New Jersey could get boxed out of Race to the Top funds.
- Teach For America is slated to get $15 million in Obama’s budget, which seems to be a first.
- John Merrow’s latest Michelle Rhee report asks how media stardom is affecting her leadership.
- Peter Goodman wonders if it’s possible to merge peer-review with value-added models.
- A teacher is watching three of his classes transition to “lockdown.”
- An interview with the author of “Never Work Harder Than Your Students.”
- Arne Duncan will be Katie Couric’s date to the White House correspondents dinner.
- Promoting a Spanish GED as a good alternative for those who speak the language.
- In some districts, teachers can be fired for not paying their union dues, Antonucci reminds us.
- Jim Shelton, of the Obama administration and formerly Gates, talks “common standards.”
- Ken Hirsh says that the hiring freeze is bad for the city.