News from New York City:
- The state is set to propose lengthening annual exams, but not to four hours as threatened. (Times)
- A teacher’s aide with cancer has filed the first suit over toxic contamination at P.S. 51. (Daily News, NY1)
- A former teacher who has been active in Occupy protests resigned as an investigation began. (Post)
- The city completed its annual list of schools it aims to close. (GothamSchools, Times, NY1, WSJ, Post)
- A Bronx high school where students complained about irregular instruction is on the list. (Daily News)
- So is a Bronx school where students had lobbied for years for additional resources. (GothamSchools)
- And so is a Brooklyn secondary school for boys that hadn’t been warned it could close. (GothamSchools)
- The City Council voted to overrule Mayor Bloomberg’s veto of a bill constraining contractor use. (WSJ)
- Ginia Bellafante: A two-year-old lawsuit alleging abuse at Poly Prep is roiling the private school. (Times)
- The Daily News said the city made the right choices when picking which schools to close and shrink.
And beyond:
- Two supporters of the “Broader, Bolder Approach” call for attention to poverty’s effects in schools. (Times)
- In Newark, calls are growing for the state to cede control of the school district after 16 years. (Times)
- A survey of what has happened around the country when states have taken over school districts. (Times)
- An exchange aimed to bridge differences between urban and suburban schools in Chicago. (Tribune)
- Michael Winerip: Schools on military bases got better NAEP scores than other public schools. (Times)
- New Orleans charter schools are angry that the school board voted to cut budgets. (Times-Picayune)
- Texas schools are trying to quantify just how much they have lost to annual budget cuts. (Times)
- Boston’s public schools have unequal facilities that don’t correlate to academic performance. (Globe)
- A growing group of online tutors, such as Sal Khan, are becoming celebrities in the real world. (Times)