Skip to main contentRise & Shine: High graduation rates gives Bloomberg final brag
By | December 5, 2013, 12:03pm UTC - Graduation rates hit a record high. (GothamSchools, WSJ, Schoolbook, Daily News, NY1, Post, C-NY)
- Ways to save money: sharing school staff and keeping them inside city zip codes. (GothamSchools)
- Some people traveled more than 100 miles to a forum to vent about the Common Core. (Buffalo News)
- Complaints from families with special education students seeking private school tuition is up. (News)
- A Bronx parent says abuse complaints by her 9-year-old daughter have been ignored. (Riverdale Press)
- Campbell Brown criticizes Gov. Andrew Cuomo for not speaking up for the Common Core. (News)
- One in five parents say their young children get 15 minutes or less to eat lunch in school. (NPR)
- Professors are developing online coursework to help high school students with tough concepts. (Times)
- Why “The Hunger Games” trilogy makes for historically great textbooks for civics class. (WSJ)
- The school system’s biggest bus operator is closing after failing to cut labor costs. (News, Schoolbook)