Rise & Shine: Arne Duncan weighs in on D.C.'s contract fight

  • Joel DiBartolomeo, the city’s high schools superintendent, will take over a Penn. school district. (AP)
  • Barbara Byrd-Bennett, a former DOE official, is struggling as Detroit’s academic czar. (Detroit News)
  • Arne Duncan says the battle over D.C.’s teacher contract “has gone on too long.” (Wall Street Journal)
  • Girls Prep Charter School needs to expand, but Lower East Side schools don’t want to take it in. (NY1)
  • PS 184, the Shuang Wen School, held a rally against Girls Prep or other schools moving in. (Post)
  • Bronx Preparatory Charter School held its annual college application-sendoff yesterday. (NY1)
  • Most high schools in Riverdale didn’t fare too well on the latest progress reports. (Riverdale Press)
  • Seattle is reinstating the same admissions system it ditched when it tried to integrate. (Seattle Times)
  • Los Angeles declined to ban sugary drinks in city schools. (L.A. Times)
  • Chicago nonprofits will offer sports and counseling to stem youth violence. (Christian Science Monitor)