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By | February 22, 2010, 12:45pm UTC - The principal of the Bronx’s Young Scholars Academy resigned after admitting improprieties. (Post)
- Ross Global Academy, the Manhattan charter school, has lost 20 percent of students this year. (Post)
- An architecture charter school with money problems won’t move to Smith HS after all. (Daily News)
- Students at a Manhattan high school are raising funds to visit Nazi concentration camps. (Daily News)
- Chancellor Klein praises Houston’s experiment in value-added teacher evaluation. (Houston Chronicle)
- Eva Moskowitz answers questions about the city’s charter school fights. (Education News Colorado)
- Rumor has it that NY can get Race to the Top funds by lifting the charter cap this month. (Crain’s NY)
- The city’s high school admissions process is too complicated, a columnist writes. (Metro)
- The Times says NYC should replicate Iowa’s programs to prepare GED test-takers.
- An investigation found an Albany charter school screened students for ability. (Albany Times-Union)
- The Obama administration might pressure states to adopt new math and reading standards. (Times)
- Obama told governors that the country could see massive teacher layoffs this year. (Reuters)
- President Obama is letting high schools compete to have him speak at graduation. (AP)
- The Wall Street Journal warns that students suffer because of teachers’ tenure protections.
- Australia could soon see teachers evaluated by test scores. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Few are happy with San Francisco’s new enrollment system, designed to reduce segregation. (Times)