- Richard Ravitch is lieut gov. Paterson will push mayoral control, but legal troubles are ahead.
- Board of Ed questions are being directed to DOE’s press office, Wayne Barrett reports.
- Also via Barrett: Assemblyman Brennan called Board of Ed ruling an “abuse of power.”
- Video captures Bloomberg and Thompson answering education questions at the WFP debate.
- The city teachers union is endorsing a Queens City Councilmember — and her teacher opponent.
- That amazing Staten Island P.S. 22 student chorus says an emotional goodbye, via the Cure.
- Mayor Bloomberg may order agencies to block routine contracts in order to save money.
- Sherman Dorn: recent attacks on teacher unions are ineffective and based on wrong assumptions.
- In cheering modest test score gains, Chicago’s Mayor Daley also said tests may be too easy.
- That’s in response to the new report challenging Chicago’s supposed improvements.
- Ideas for how education grad schools can spur innovation.
- The think-tank arm of the national school boards association grows a blog, authors a report.
- One of the first to push for a parent-training center was a Brooklyn pastor.