Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Queens AP with swine flu dies; more schools close
By | May 18, 2009, 11:49am UTC - The Queens assistant principal with swine flu has died. (Times)
- The DOE closed 5 more schools because of the flu. (Daily News)
- The UFT said 18 more schools have swine flu epidemics, but it won’t name them. (Post)
- Some are saying the DOE should have closed flu-affected schools sooner. (Post)
- Families from Yonkers appear to be enrolling at one Bronx school en masse. (Post)
- Some charter schools may be giving their heads outsized salaries and their heads’ families jobs. (Post)
- In New Orleans’ new charter schools, principals are suddenly making lots of money. (Times Picayune)
- The head of the NY Civil Rights Coalition says charters have propelled resegregation. (Daily News)
- The number of HIV infections diagnosed in city teens is up amid a wider decline. (Post)
- Gotham Gazette has excerpts from a recent forum on mayoral control that its publisher sponsored.
- In a letter, Comptroller William Thompson says the DOE doesn’t successfully project for growth. (Times)
- Is it really true that U.S. students do so badly compared to kids in other countries? Maybe not. (AP)
- Education’s “Odd Couple” talked high expectations at Education Equality Day. (Washington Post)
- Jay Mathews says schools need to do better about combating senioritis. (Washington Post)
- The Times says government must do more to fix the nation’s “dropout factories.”
- The race to fix a failing school in L.A. has pitted charter proponents against other reformers. (L.A. Times)