- Beth Fertig explains how the mayoral control deal was made, then didn’t happen.
- Arne Duncan calls being a principal the “toughest job in America.”
- State Sen. Bill Perkins is planning demonstrations in Harlem next week against charter schools.
- Clara Hemphill says charter schools can help students and also hurt neighborhood schools.
- Charlie Barone tracks how states are responding to Race to the Top carrot and/or stick.
- Joel Klein’s unlikely ally, the Rev. Al, will endorse a Klein critic, Bill Thompson, for mayor.
- Chicago’s high school transformation initiative is running out of money and steam.
- Laying out how research shows that teacher control helps schools get better.
- A Manhattan Institute scholar calls for a Compstat-style tracking system for teachers.
- Speaking at NAACP, President Obama urged people to get involved at their local public school.
- Arne Duncan and Kathleen Sebelius are both getting behind an early education bill.
- Skepticism about UFT’s savings thanks to some (just some!) employees taking summer Fridays.
- NEA prez says he and Duncan both want schools to get better; strategies are the problem.
- And the Innovative Educator is looking for an intern.