Rise & Shine: Principals are preparing for looming budget cuts

Black and Hispanic students are still more likely to be in schools with low progress report grades. (Times)
Peace and Diversity Academy, the only F-rated high school, has been moved several times. (Daily News)
Principals are considering what programs to cut when looming budget cuts are finally ordered. (NY1)
Community Education Council presidents are no longer meeting with Chancellor Klein monthly. (Post)
The Board of Regents approved the development of a credit-bearing “virtual high school.” (Post)
Thomas Carroll calls the state’s teacher training proposal “a heck of a start.” (Post)
Penn. lawmakers are weighing putting more restrictions on charter schools. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
A new documentary likens public schools to prisons. (Times)
Boston is poised to close a dozen struggling schools this year. (Boston Globe)
Chicago is figuring out how to go on after the suicide of its school board president. (Chicago Sun-Times)