Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Randi says she can abide a mayor-controlled PEP
By | May 21, 2009, 11:24am UTC - Half of city students are in overcrowded classrooms, according to a new report. (Post)
- Randi Weingarten offers suggestions for a freer PEP that’s still controlled by the mayor. (Post)
- “This is big,” the Post says about Weingarten’s school board composition concession.
- School construction is lagging, with 10 planned schools without even broken ground. (Daily News)
- Kids from schools closed because of the flu are spending their time in parks and malls. (Times)
- Parents at Brooklyn’s PS 153 want their school shut after 20 percent of kids were out sick. (Daily News)
- A bill was introduced, apparently in error, that would unionize all charter school teachers. (Post)
- Governor Paterson signed a law making e-mail and text message alerts available to parents. (Post)
- Comptroller William Thompson found that parents have been shut out at the DOE. (Daily News)
- Mayor Bloomberg is urging calm on swine flu, even as more schools close. (Daily News)
- Schoolkids in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, want more security near their schools. (Daily News)
- Media mogul Mort Zuckerman says technology could save our schools. (Daily News)
- Angry townspeople in a California town voted to recall their entire school board yesterday. (Times)
- Ed Sec Arne Duncan is responding to reports about dangerous special ed discipline. (Washington Post)
- A review of scores and spending at California charter schools had mixed results. (L.A. Times)