ON MAYORAL CONTROL:
- Democratic Sen. John Sampson is still planning to push changes to mayoral control, sources say. (Post)
- Senate Democrats said last week that they would vote on mayoral control this week. (Post)
- Senate mayoral control opponents are still saying they will try to block the Assembly bill. (Daily News)
- The Post asks Randi Weingarten for one last gift before she leaves the city: a renewal of mayoral control.
FROM NEW YORK CITY:
- Regents head Merryl Tisch wants to limit makeup credit and bar bad schools from offering it. (Times)
- Tisch is also asking teacher-training programs to track their graduates’ success. (Daily News)
- Some of the state’s worst-ranking schools were opened to replace ones the city closed. (Daily News)
- Eva Moskowitz and Scott Stringer are squabbling about schools. (GothamSchools, Daily News)
- The Post says folks at Moskowitz’s Harlem Success schools should call the police to stop their critics.
- The former principal who is credited with turning around a failing school died. (Times, Daily News)
AND BEYOND:
- In letters, New York Times readers suggest how Arne Duncan can turn around failing schools.
- The Economist takes a look at Texas’s KIPP charter schools.
- Jay Mathews rehashes gripes about how he ranks schools by AP participation. (Washington Post)
- The D.C. Council say they want D.C.’s school voucher program renewed. (Wall Street Journal)
- Some say that Obama misled the public about Ed Sec Arne Duncan’s record in Chicago. (USA Today)