Rise & Shine: Students take on long commutes for city schools

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)