Rise & Shine: State education officials grilled over student data

  • Legislators grilled education officials about student data. (Dem & Chronicle, Times UnionSchoolBook)
  • State education chief John King said he would support legislation to penalize data misuse. (Capital NY)
  • A top legislator threatened to sue InBloom, the state’s data vendor, for skipping the hearing. (Capital NY)
  • A high-profile principal who took over a struggling charter school months ago resigned. (GothamSchools)
  • De Blasio’s transition team includes some education names. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook, Capital NY)
  • A new study finds that college students learn more when they take frequent tests and quizzes. (Times)
  • A national campaign that brings together unions and TFA aims to recruit top students to teach. (Times)
  • Two advocates say the teachers union is wrong to protest testing that it kind of agreed to. (Daily News)
  • An assistant principal’s lawsuit claims she was demoted for calling 911 at her Brooklyn school. (Post)