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By | September 21, 2011, 10:57am UTC - Students who repeat eighth grade say the city isn’t setting them up for success after that. (Daily News)
- The city plans to overhaul its middle schools. (GothamSchools, Times, Daily News, Post, NY1, WSJ)
- One piece of the middle school plan has the UFT weighing a new deal on personnel. (GothamSchools)
- Union employees and their backers held another protest against looming layoffs of school aides. (NY1)
- Michael Goodwin: The city’s black and Hispanic students haven’t seen their SAT scores rise. (Post)
- The Times says the state’s plan to prevent cheating is on the right track but requires state funding.
- The school district in Kansas City, Mo., has lost its accreditation and faces state takeover. (Times)
- Its former schools chief was hired to fix Detroit’s schools and is set to start next week. (Detroit News)
- Boston is the latest city to have its district and charter schools agree to collaborate. (Boston Globe)
- Some of the money Mark Zuckerberg donated to Newark’s schools will go to innovative teachers. (WSJ)