Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Many calls for an end to testing youngest students
By | November 15, 2013, 12:17pm UTC - Union chiefs want to end “bubble tests” in grades K-2. The city agrees. (GothamSchools, WSJ, Capital)
- Parent-teacher conferences were rescheduled at a Brownsville school after a shooting. (DNAInfo)
- The state will soon settle a suit over costly private school tuition for special needs students. (WSJ)
- School safety procedures are changing because of Avonte Oquendo. (WSJ, WNYC, Daily News)
- The city will host public “conversations” at 71 struggling schools. (GothamSchools, WNYC, NY1, Capital)
- One of those schools is P.S. 114, which Bill de Blasio has taken some credit for keeping open. (Post)
- Tougher graduation requirements have left students in limbo over a few crucial points. (GothamSchools)
- After an Italian town gave the mayor-elect a truffle, de Blasio donated it to a high school. (Daily News)
- The Post’s editorial board: We worry that John King’s push for reforms still isn’t dramatic enough.
- A parent says her child’s bullying points to bigger discipline issues at P.S. 194 in Harlem. (Daily News)