Rise & Shine: Teach for America expanding to upstate city

Buffalo will be able to hire up to 60 TFA recruits over two years for needy teacher jobs. (Buffalo News)
Daycare and pre-K students will soon be required to receive flu vaccinations to attend school. (Post)
School overcrowding in western Queens is one area of focus in the mayoral transition. (Times-Ledger)
A charter school will keep an emergency policy that puts students in a ‘calm-down’ room. (Daily News)
Walcott says progress reports and school options are top items for the next mayor to keep. (Capital NY)
School board members don’t want student data shared with a data company. (GS in Brief, Times-Union)
Mike Petrilli says de Blasio’s pre-K ambitions will falter if he can’t improve elementary schools. (News)
Long Island school districts have spent big on safety in the year since Newtown’s shootings. (Newsday)