Rise & Shine: New, displaced teachers jockeying for scarce jobs

  • New and excessed teachers looked for scarce jobs at a Department of Education hiring fair. (WNYC)
  • State education chiefs say they can propose their own, growth-based accountability systems. (Times)
  • Atlanta officials want to fire everyone named in the cheating probe and launch new safeguards (WSJ)
  • Teachers fired by a city charter school say officials were driven by anti-union feelings. (GothamSchools)
  • A Queens teacher convicted of having sex with a teen was sentenced to 90 days in prison. (Daily News)
  • The top winners in Google’s global student science fair were American women. (Agence France-Presse)