On the teacher evaluation showdown:
- Gov. Cuomo is set to link new teacher evaluations to school funding from the state. (Daily News, Post)
- He is likely to demand NYSUT drop its suit and to allow just a month to agree to new evaluations. (Post)
- The plan was Cuomo’s second choice, after talks with statewide unions didn’t yield results. (Daily News)
- Robert Ward: The legal process that Cuomo is leveraging with his budget plans is arcane. (Post)
- The moment has Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg teaming up against the “education bureaucracy.” (Times)
- The total amount of federal funds at risk over the evaluations conflict is over $1 billion. (Daily News)
- State leaders are expected to approve the city’s transformation-to-turnaround switch. (Daily News)
- The UFT is threatening to sue over the city’s turnaround plans. (GothamSchools, WSJ, SchoolBook)
- A rundown of what major players, including principals and parents, say about evaluations. (Daily News)
- Most parents polled on the Lower East Side say teachers should have tough evaluations. (Daily News)
- A former teacher says that in his experience, good evaluations didn’t ensure good teaching. (Daily News)
- DFER’s Joe Williams: Mayor Bloomberg’s push on teacher evaluations will pay off in the long term. (Post)
In other news:
- Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City speech showed that he is still staking his legacy on schools. (Times)
- His policy proposals, including pay hikes and turnarounds, could cost $350 million a year. (Daily News)
- The city switched a $10 million data contract from IBM to NewsCorp’s Wireless Generation. (Daily News)
- The American Museum of Natural History is launching its own teacher certification program. (Times)
- A new teacher training program at Fordham University preps teachers for tough schools. (Daily News)
- The first school closure hearing of the year was for a school started under Bloomberg. (GothamSchools)
- A Queens teacher investigated three times for misconduct is now on permanent desk duty. (Daily News)
- An East Village private school is giving parents views into the school day using social media. (WSJ)
- City students participated in a “Future City” innovative science competition this weekend. (Daily News)
- A Queens neighborhood group got a “Promise Neighborhood” grant to help students in college. (NY1)
- Ads for a Williamsburg charter school have attracted sticker criticism. (GothamSchools, Brooklyn Paper)
- Several Brooklyn private schools are bucking a trend and keeping tuition low — around $20,000. (WSJ)
- Elected parent leaders on Staten Island want to change the process for yellow bus service. (S.I. Advance)
And elsewhere:
- Michael Winerip: The study showing the value of good teachers is based on old test score data. (Times)
- Upstate, some districts are putting meat on the bones of new evaluations. (Syracuse Post-Standard)
- In some U.S. border towns, students travel hours each day to get from homes in Mexico to school. (Times)
- A teacher in D.C. said she she stayed after getting a pay raise under a merit program there. (Daily News)
- Students at a diverse range of New Jersey schools will talk about “Of Mice and Men” together. (Times)
- An influential Chicago activist has built up that city’s largest charter school organization. (Times)
- A proposal for mayoral control of Kansas City’s public schools is likely to face an uphill battle. (K.C. Star)