Rise & Shine: StudentsFirstNY filing federal civil rights complaint

  • StudentsFirstNY is filing a civil rights complaint today over the city’s distribution of teacher quality. (Post)
  • State policy makers are moving to increase scrutiny of charter schools’ student attrition. (GothamSchools)
  • The city is investigating a Queens principal who teachers say has made inappropriate comments. (NY1)
  • Buffalo is set to follow mandates and let students in low-performing schools transfer out. (Buffalo News)
  • Chicago is making schools turn over money made from renting roof space to cell phone towers. (Tribune)