Skip to main contentRise & Shine: New American Academy hype undercut by scores
By | November 4, 2013, 11:35am UTC - Much-hyped New American Academy won’t add a middle school after posting low scores. (Daily News)
- Despite its own struggles, Harlem Village Academies is starting an education school. (GothamSchools)
- The city is subsidizing schools to add assistant principals to help with evaluations. (GothamSchools)
- Mayor Bloomberg wants Colorado voters to okay $1 billion in school taxes. (Times, EdNews Colorado)
- New Yorkers face a vote on allowing casinos that could bring $94 million to city schools. (Daily News)
- A Christian church has been proselytizing outside Community Roots Charter School. (Daily News)
- A Bronx teen and her family allege in a lawsuit that her Catholic school expelled her for being gay. (Post)
- City private school parties are so rowdy that some schools are asking parents to keep students out. (Post)
- Checker Finn: Half of Bill de Blasio’s education ideas are sound; half are weak or even perilous. (Post)
- Programs to help students in foster care transition to college boost their chances of succeeding. (Times)
- As schools issue iPads and other devices to their students, they become targets for thieves. (USA Today)
- When Florida asked for public comments about the Common Core standards, it got over 19,000. (AP)