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By | June 1, 2011, 11:01am UTC - More teachers than expected appear to be retiring or otherwise leaving this year. (Post)
- Michael Goodwin: In many city schools, students are failing but teachers pass them anyway. (Post)
- A foster child is among 35 students graduating from the early-college Hostos-Lincoln Academy. (Daily News)
- Students from PS 124 in Chinatown won a national high school chess tournament. (WNYC)
- Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. will lead a bid to push education in the 2012 campaign. (Ad Week)
- Diane Ravitch: The “miracle” of school reform recently is merely a triumph of public relations. (Times)
- Jim Dwyer: The cost of cutting foreign language Regents exams is more than the state will save. (Times)
- PS 73 in the Bronx has suffered a string of technology thefts that’s left it laptop-less. (Daily News)
- People are protesting charter schools in many cities, even though some of the schools are good. (CNN)
- The Post says the school closure lawsuit shows how Albany fails by legislating terms that can be litigated.
- The Daily News says Chancellor Walcott must fire Andrew Buck, a controversial high school principal.
- Chicago plans to give poor students low-cost, high-speed internet access at home. (Chicago Sun-Times)