Rise & Shine: Scandal has distracted Klein from education tasks

  • Dealing with NewsCorp’s phone-hacking scandal has pulled Joel Klein from his education job. (Times)
  • The UFT and CSA sued the city over school “closures.” (GothamSchools, Daily News, Post, NY1, WSJ)
  • P.S. 234’s kindergarten wait list cleared already after the school added another class. (Tribeca Trib)
  • Educators at the seven Queens schools set for turnaround fear some programs could die. (Daily News)
  • Queens’ J.H.S. 157 students got a science lesson while designing the school’s new playground. (Times)
  • The Baccalaureate School for Global Studies is the top city school in U.S. News’ rankings. (Daily News)
  • A deal on school reform in Connecticut includes tenure changes and aid for charter schools. (The Day)