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By | February 24, 2011, 4:29am UTC - AFT president Randi Weingarten and Stephen Colbert talk Wisconsin. (Colbert Report)
- Cuomo’s budget cuts funding for 11 schools serving blind, deaf, and disabled students. (Daily News)
- The Center for American Progress has a report on how principals try to improve teacher quality. (CAP)
- Elizabeth Puccini tours P.S. 276, a green school in Battery Park City. (GS Community)
- Stephen Lazar: Ending LIFO will sacrifice the dedicated teachers who want to stay. (GS Community)
- One of Rahm Emanuel’s first tasks will be deciding who should run Chicago’s schools. (Sun-Times)
- Indiana’s right-to-work bill died after Republican lawmakers decided it was a mistake. (Politico)
- Compton’s school board overturned parents’ petition to turn their school into a charter. (L.A. Times)
- Paying kids to do their homework seems to boost achievement, but paying for grades doesn’t. (NPR)
- Chris Christie said he doesn’t have support for ending collective bargaining in New Jersey. (WSJ)
- Also in N.J., Chris Cerf faces an ethics investigation for his consulting company. (N.J. Newsroom)
- Robert Pondiscio reviews Doug Lemov’s “Teach Like a Champion.” (Education Next)