Rise & Shine: Charters exclude high-need students, UFT says

A UFT report criticized charter schools for enrolling too few special needs students. (Daily News)
Thomas Carroll writes that the union’s recommendations would “gut” charter schools. (Post)
A new study says Teach for America alums have comparatively low rates of civic involvement. (Times)
City students rallied this weekend to save free Metrocards for students. (NY1)
Some prospective teachers tried to get onto the old pension plan before it ends the week. (AP, Post)
Parents at Stuyvesant HS and other top schools are paying for programs whose budgets were cut. (Post)
Chancellor Klein withdrew a DOE proposal that would have banned school raffles. (Times, NY1)
Top State Senate Democrat John Sampson says he supports lifting the charter cap. (Daily News)
Eric Grannis, lawyer (and Eva Moskowitz’s husband), says some charter schools should fail. (Daily News)
A handful of Islamic schools were among the only schools open last week. (Times)
The city unveiled two schools that will open on a new campus in Forest Hills. (Daily News)
New York City hasn’t decided if it will take advantage of the stimulus and build new schools. (WNYC)
Parents and teachers at the Bronx’s Alfred E. Smith HS plan to fight to keep the school open. (Daily News)
District 2 rezoning is stressing out Tribeca parents who want their kids at P.S. 234. (Tribeca Trib, NYMag)
Gov. Paterson says he plans to repay school districts in January whose aid he withheld. (Post, Daily News)
State officials say Race to the Top applications take more than the estimated 681 hours. (Times)
“Turnaround” is just one approach the Obama Administration backs for failing schools. (Washington Post)
There are so many honors students on Long Island that their credentials feel devalued. (Times)
New data continue to undercut Arne Duncan’s record as Chicago schools chief. (Washington Post)
Michelle Rhee says she’ll try to avoid teacher layoffs in D.C.’s next budget cuts. (Washington Post)
Kevin Huffman, the newest Washington Post columnist, outlines his ideas for improving schools.
The mayor of Rochester wants control of the city’s schools. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
A Houston charter school gets its students motivated by making college the goal. (AP)
A Michigan teachers college has incorporated med school-like “rounds” into its teacher training. (NPR)
A perpetual substitute teacher says teachers like her go unregulated in many districts. (Times)
Neighborhoods in Chicago will compete to open a Harlem Children’s Zone of their own. (Chicago Tribune)