- After two hours debating, Senate Dems still couldn’t agree on mayoral control tonight.
- The head of HR at DOE is reassuring teachers colleges about the hiring freeze.
- Pre-K placements will be e- or snail-mailed at the end of this week, Helen reports.
- More on the Queens appearance of Klein, Weingarten, and Logan about swine flu.
- Joe Williams says DiNapoli should stop auditing charter schools. (Via Chalkboard.)
- 30% of New York teachers favor year-round school; 56% are against. The rest don’t know.
- Students painted a street in Fort Greene over the weekend, and there’s video proof.
- Rotherham says Colorado has the most ed-“reformers” per square foot.
- Petrilli ponders how it is that Massachusetts does awesome on tests, yet has teachers unions.
- How’d I miss this? Gates Foundation pays works with Viacom to weave edu-messages into TV shows.
- The AP’s Libby Quaid fact-checks rhetoric on America’s no-good very-bad schools.
- Many states haven’t proposed what to do with stimulus funds; NY’s proposal is here.
- A look at the Chicago charter school that got unionized.
- The benefits of taking a year after high school before college, from a college counselor.
- A new professional development for teachers: Virtual classroom management.