- The Wonkster is reporting that Mayor Bloomberg won’t sign any governance bill that has amendments.
- Former public school teacher and noted author Frank McCourt is reportedly near death.
- Data show that the achievement gap is lower at schools that serve military families.
- Joanne Jacobs’s mechanic tells her that customers need help figuring out how 3/8 relates to 1/4.
- Individual donors have so far given Insideschools.org two thirds of the money the site needs.
- Arizona got caught trying to use school stimulus money for other budget gaps. No go, said USDOE.
- A teacher who thought she had found the perfect pen found an even better one: It doesn’t bleed!
- Rather than negotiate a new contract in a bad budget year, Baltimore teachers extended the current one.
- Seniors in Kentucky are lobbying for more support for preschool programs.
- Alexander Russo can’t get Arne Duncan’s daily schedule, and he’s not happy about it.
- Work was stopped on the Achievement First school going up in Brooklyn because of an unsafe crane.
- A call for preserving, and funding, successful faith-based private schools.