Rise & Shine: UFT Charter School co-location unseats a band

  • The UFT Charter School’s expanded co-location is displacing a storied student marching band. (Post)
  • The Innovation Zone, a signature Bloomberg schools invention, is at a crossroads. (Gotham Gazette)
  • Pearson botched the city’s gifted testing. (GothamSchools, Times, Daily News, WSJ, SchoolBook, NY1)
  • Some districts and unions quietly agreed not to fire teachers based on new evaluations. (Buffalo News)
  • A Bronx principal said shifting to the Common Core has been hard. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook)
  • The Times says no matter the road bumps, the city and country should not give up on the Common Core.
  • The Daily News says families should be upset that their children were set up to fail, but not at the tests.
  • The Post says the Common Core is trying to change what Mayor Bloomberg did not about city schools.
  • A professor of education history looks back to the start of fighting over testing — to 1845 Boston. (Times)
  • Some of the latest student fights at Murry Bergtraum High School have made it to YouTube. (Post)
  • City police are investigating another filmed fight among teenaged girls that happened in Astoria. (AP)
  • The Post says mayoral candidates’ softer approach to school discipline isn’t appropriate for reality.
  • Bronx High School of Science opened its own Holocaust memorial and museum. (Times, Daily News)
  • A Bloomberg administration study found that half of New Yorkers were poor or near poor in 2011. (Times)
  • Boston schools reopen today for the first time since last week’s bombing and manhunt. (Globe, HuffPo)
  • With its many bilingual returned missionaries, Utah is boosting language instruction in schools. (Times)
  • Louisiana is backing out of inBloom, the nonprofit database of student information. (Monroe News Star)