Rise & Shine: Upstate school closures set to be accelerated

By 
Philissa Cramer
 | February 7, 2012, 12:00pm UTC
  • Rochester wants to speed schools’ closures because students are foundering. (Democrat & Chronicle)
  • The city will appeal a judge’s order that it rehire a teacher who complained about students. (Daily News)
  • After school programs that provide child care and GED classes are on the chopping block. (Daily News)
  • A poll found wide support for Gov. Cuomo’s approach to new teacher evaluations. (GothamSchools)
  • Another look at Manhattan Theatre Lab, an arts school that is facing a closure vote on Thursday. (NY1)
  • Latinos worry that if P.S. 19 vanishes, so will Roberto Clemente’s name. (GothamSchools/El Diario)
  • Every teacher is being removed from an L.A. school roiled by sex abuse charges. (L.A. Times, Times, AP)
  • Detroit is set to name 10 schools it will turn over to state management in a new district. (Free Press)