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By | November 19, 2009, 12:20pm UTC - 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)