Skip to main contentRemainders: Bloomberg: 15,000 teacher layoffs possible
By | January 29, 2011, 3:41am UTC - If the state cuts the city’s ed budget by $1 billion, 15,000 teachers would be laid off. (Reuters)
- Here are New York’s new state teaching standards, newly Regents-approved. (NYSED, PDF)
- A woman who lied to get her children into better schools deemed new Rosa Parks. (NPR)
- The UFT mapped the locations of schools slated for closure and charter schools. (Edwize)
- There’s reason to be concerned about the Promise Neighborhoods project. (Paul Tough)
- Ohio’s state teacher pension board is recommending big benefit cuts. (Dayton Daily News)
- A prominent ed researcher says he is skeptical of much of ed research. (Larry Cuban)
- Joel Klein’s new nonprofit has a mailer urging support for closing schools. (Daily Politics)
- Another argument that the U.S. should mimic Finland, in a slightly unusual place. (TNR)
- Finland’s success story doesn’t support either side in US’s ed wars. (Quick and the Ed)