- Arne Duncan declined a last-minute plea from Joel Klein to push for mayoral control.
- The Brooklyn appointee to the Board of Ed is a former community school board member.
- What do the borough presidents have in common with the Honduran military?
- Blogger Accountable Talk, no fan of the chancellor, mocked up a resume for his then-possible job hunt.
- The Parent Commission on School Governance responds to the sunset of mayoral control.
- The Senate Democrats say they’re ready to start talking school governance now, maybe.
- Norm Scott proposes an entirely different governance system: One by the people at each school.
- A state charter schools blog disputes suggestions that Arne Duncan is softening on charter school caps.
- On the age-old question of why parents usually like their low-performing schools.
- A teacher asks why a no-fault ATR didn’t get first shot at a vacant teaching spot in her area.
- A call for change in what city schools serve students at breakfast and lunch.
- Women are as likely to become principals as men, according to a new database.
- Maybe Arne Duncan and Michelle Rhee are not that different after all, says Andy Rotherham.
- That’s food for thought during Duncan’s speech to the NEA tomorrow. (Will they boo merit pay?)
- In Chicago, 1,000 central office employees will be fired from the city’s school system.
- A committee is forming to figure out how to create national standards. Forward march!