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By | November 23, 2009, 12:10pm UTC - Test prep for admission to the city’s gifted kindergarten classes is a booming industry. (Times)
- Forty charter school operators will compete for the state’s 18 remaining charters. (Post)
- There are currently 40,000 names, including duplicates, on city charter school waitlists. (Post)
- Governor Paterson is continuing to pressure lawmakers to cut state school aid. (Bloomberg)
- A student who graduated from high school in June is suing the city because he is illiterate. (Post)
- An audit found the state isn’t ensuring schools report accurate Regents scores. (GothamSchools, Post)
- Charter school critics and advocates won’t say they agree on the role of class size. (Columbia Spectator)
- A brand-new Brooklyn teacher offers his view on how well Teach for America prepared him. (NPR)
- A teacher at Humanities Tech raised thousands of dollars for students to take SAT classes. (Daily News)
- A bus carrying students from Brooklyn’s PS 5 caught on fire Friday; no one was hurt. (AP)
- The Daily News says the state should lay off of Excellence Charter School of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
- In a letter, New York Civil Liberties Union officials boost the City Council’s Student Safety Act. (Times)
- The White House is planning a new media campaign to get students to study math and science. (Times)
- A new report finds that the quality and quantity of gifted education varies by school district. (AP)
- Jay Mathews reports on one teacher’s poor results on D.C.’s new teacher evaluation. (Washington Post)
- Rhode Island is the latest to unveil a Race to the Top-inspired school reform plan. (Providence Journal)
- Few schools are closing because of H1N1 flu outbreaks. (USA Today)
- D.C. charter schools want the same police protection given to district schools. (Washington Post)