Remainders: Mulgrew turning down offer of free trip to Finland

  • Mayoral candidate Tom Allon has offered to take the UFT’s Michael Mulgrew to Finland. (Crain’s NY)
  • Actor Cynthia Nixon, a longtime city schools activist, likes Bill de Blasio for mayor. (Capital Tonight)
  • A look at what protesting city parents could teach “the 1-percent education reformers.” (The Awl)
  • Local groups are in on a national effort to ask the feds to give more money to needy schools. (EdVox)
  • An explainer on the Common Core curriculum standards for New York City parents. (Insideschools)
  • A principal says the city should grade middle schools on students’ high school readiness. (SchoolBook)
  • Without mentioning Rochester, Chicago’s schools chief discusses his own school search. (Big City Belly)
  • Part II of another interview with Chicago’s schools chief touches on unions. (Charting My Own Course)
  • An Illinois teacher was suspended for showing students Jon Stewart clips about Herman Cain. (HuffPo)
  • A charter advocate recaps what Steve Brill said when our Geoff Decker interviewed him. (Chalkboard)
  • A mom chronicles the difficulties in advocating for her son, who has autism. (Insideschools)
  • Education Week has launched a set of news stories about labor-district collaboration. (Teacher Beat)
  • Another Race to the Top round (the third) focuses on science education; N.Y. can’t enter. (Politics K-12)
  • Jimmy Fallon channels Jim Morrison channeling the “Reading Rainbow” theme song. (YouTube)