Rise & Shine: Alternatives being considered for Regents exams

By 
Philissa Cramer
 | April 24, 2012, 11:02am UTC
  • The Regents are proposing an alternative to the five-Regents-exam graduation requirement. (NY1, Post)
  • Juan Gonzalez: The state could approve higher payments to the Success Charter Network. (Daily News)
  • More teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve are finding jobs under a rotation system. (SchoolBook)
  • The state promised not to edit reading passages that appear on tests in a familiar vow. (GothamSchools)
  • Michael Powell: Bushwick Community High School’s public closure hearing was moving to all. (Times)
  • The Post criticizes the state for considering dropping a test requirement instead of holding firm to it.
  • Parents at Cobble Hill’s P.S. 29 want the city to wait until later to remove asbestos. (NY1, Daily News)
  • A Harlem student who broke both of his knees in January took the exams in the hospital. (Daily News)
  • Newark’s superintendent, Cami Anderson, will be paid $247,000 a year plus bonuses. (N.J. Spotlight)
  • Several recent Nobel Peace Prize winners visited Chicago public schools on Monday. (Times)