Rise & Shine: Thursday, 8/21

  • The number of “persistently dangerous” schools in the city decreased this year. (Post, Sun, Daily News)
  • The city says all children who need school bus service will get it, but bus drivers fear that more than 600 special ed routes are about to be cut. (Post, Sun)
  • In a Gallup poll, voters chose Obama over McCain when it came to education. (Sun)
  • Illinois’ system for funding schools is discriminatory and should be unconstitutional, said the Chicago Urban League in a lawsuit filed yesterday. (Chicago Sun-Times)
  • George Will looks at the “new paternalism” at work in the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, CA. (Post)
  • The Sun editorializes in favor of school choice, including charters and vouchers. (Sun)