Rise & Shine: State will soon have just 18 charters left to award

  • 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. (GothamSchoolsPost)
  • 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)