- A new report compares charter schools to good grocery stores, and says both are underused by the poor.
- Elizabeth, Aaron, and Chad Aldeman analyze the numbers from the Harlem Children’s Zone study.
- A reminder that the DOE says parents will be able to log into ARIS by the end of the school year.
- A teacher saw a silver lining in the swine flu: A stocked up soap-dispenser in his trailer bathroom.
- Notification about middle school admissions has been delayed because it has been delayed.
- Arne Duncan isn’t going to make it easy for cities to get his special innovation funds.
- I think there’s some substance here, but I can’t make it out through the profanity and talk of bacon.
- Schools for special needs kids require a $5,000 deposit that usually isn’t returned if a family withdraws.
- A suggestion that Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg should visit every flu-stricken school.
- A sunny Q+A with James Merriman of the NYC Center for Charter School Excellence.