Skip to main contentRise & Shine: NYC home to country's first veggie lunch school
By | May 1, 2013, 11:01am UTC - P.S. 244 became the first school to serve only vegetarian food. (GothamSchools, Daily News, NY1, Post)
- A junk food-loving education reporter gave P.S. 244’s new lunch a glowing review. (Daily News)
- A nonprofit education venture fund is teaming up with a new for-profit venture capital fund. (Times)
- Randi Weingarten: Strip stakes from Common Core tests. (GothamSchools, Times, NY1, Daily News)
- The Daily News agrees with Weingarten on some of her Common Core concerns but not the biggest one.
- The country’s other teachers union president also called for a two-year moratorium on stakes. (HuffPo)
- An unlikely coalition of critics is behind the growing backlash to the new learning standards. (WSJ)
- The city has spent $38.5 million in overtime payments for a special ed data program. (GothamSchools)
- Michael Benjamin: Advocate Leonie Haimson is mum on some class size reduction barriers. (Post)
- A Brooklyn school was evacuated while police investigated an abandoned backpack. (Post, DNAInfo)
- Report: School districts bound by a 2 percent tax cap could raise taxes to 4.6 percent. (Journal News)