News from New York City:
- The UFT wants principals to have to give teachers a “counseling memo” before writing them up. (Post)
- A principal who has been in the rubber room for years is apparently running a business from it. (Post)
- The Daily News says the city should be able to fire teachers so it doesn’t have to undo empowerment.
- Mayor Bloomberg’s latest education mailer attacking Thompson gets some facts wrong. (Daily News)
- Among the opponents of Brooklyn’s new Hebrew charter school: its Orthodox Jewish neighbors. (Post)
- The Daily News profiles John King, the charter school leader who is the new deputy state ed chief.
- King has credibility, but he still has to be held accountable for improving schools, the Daily News says.
- Getting into LaGuardia HS, the city’s most selective arts high school, takes serious skills. (Daily News)
- Among five students attending city arts high schools are some who moved to NYC for them. (Daily News)
- Arthur Goldstein (a GothamSchools contributor) says the city caused his school’s crowding. (Daily News)
- A quirk in DOE policy has left some Bronx students without busing after their school moved. (Daily News)
- A Queens boy with a disability has spent two hours on the bus twice a day until now. (NY1)
- A new study shows tremendous financial benefits to halving the city’s high school dropout rate. (NY1)
And beyond:
- There is high demand for South Africa’s schools, but most are not preparing students adequately. (Times)
- A former DOE deputy is pushing NYC-style policies upstate. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
- In a surprising move, Chicago’s school chief fired the his charter schools head. (Chicago Tribune)
- A new federal initiative will spend $8 billion on improving early childhood education. (Times)
- About 20 Houston teachers got an extra $20,000 to move to troubled schools. (Houston Chronicle)
- Many successful people did not attend selective colleges, reminds Jay Mathews. (Washington Post)