FROM NEW YORK CITY:
- Some principals say charter schools pawn their most difficult students off on them. (Daily News)
- Senate Dems rallied at City Hall to urge school control negotiations. (Times, Post, NY1, Daily News)
- The city is cracking down on supplemental school aides paid for by parents. (Times)
- City Hall pushed for and got a one-year extension of a high interest rate on teacher pensions. (Newsday)
- The Bloomberg campaign believes the Senate schools fight is good for the mayor’s reelection bid. (Post)
- The presence of critics is one reason the city doesn’t want parent training to happen at NYU. (Post)
- Noted author and former NYC schoolteacher Frank McCourt has died at 78. (Times)
- AP scores were tossed for 300 students at Bayside HS because of testing improprieties. (Post)
- The city’s hottest pre-K programs accepted less than 5 percent of applicants. (Post)
AND BEYOND:
- The Wall Street Journal says the test score gains that Chicago claims are “phony.”
- Parents often want say about who teaches their kids, but schools balk at giving it. (AP)
- An effort is underway to preserve one of the schools in the Brown. v. Board of Education fight. (Times)
- The Boston Globe says Massachusetts should welcome Arne Duncan’s policy pushes.
- A new book about Maryland schools gives short shrift to teachers, Jay Mathews says. (Washington Post)