Skip to main contentRemainders: State and city budget directors clash over cash
By | February 8, 2011, 2:26am UTC - The state’s budget director said the city’s reserves mean teacher layoffs should not be necessary. (DN)
- Mayor Bloomberg’s budget director shot back that the state’s math is flat-out wrong. (State of Politics)
- Bloomberg wants to make it harder for special ed students to use public funds for private school. (WNYC)
- The U.S. never had any “glory days” of public education, a new report suggests. (Curriculum Matters)
- A UC-Boulder study questioned the precision of the L.A. Times’ teacher rankings. (Answer Sheet)
- Will Cathie Black’s rocky relationship with the public make it harder for her to ask Albany for money? (DN)
- Early word from the “Parents Across America” event tonight: Ravitch’s recommendations. (EdNotes)
- Randi Weingarten says the current political vibe between teachers and management is “toxic.” (HuffPo)
- More than 2,000 charter parents went to Albany today to lobby for more funding. (WTEN)
- Would Cathie Black’s “self-promoting” ways just be called “business savvy” if she was a man? (Jezebel)
- Just 28 percent of science teachers follow national guidelines for teaching evolution, says a report. (NYT)