Rise & Shine: Arbitrator may have slept during teacher's hearing

Final Race to the Top rules including a scoring system. (Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post)
Teachers will have to make cost concessions if they want pay raises, a new budget report says. (Post)
Tom Carroll says this is a good opportunity for Mayor Bloomberg to “go to the mat” on merit pay. (Post)
The DOE is upset that an arbitrator might have fallen asleep during an incompetence hearing. (Times)
Kids at city colleges can’t do basic math, and some are questioning the city’s response. (Daily News)
City colleges were not alone among 2-year colleges in not being able to take everyone this year. (Times)
Marley Kaplan, founder of Chess-in-the-Schools, left banking to promote chess to city kids. (Times)
An N.C. school planned to raise money by letting students pay to boost their grades. (AP)
Chicago has adopted what looks like NYC’s HS admissions matching system. (Chicago Sun-Times)