FROM NEW YORK CITY:
- The teachers union ranked principals by DOE survey data on their trustworthiness. (Daily News)
- Caroline Kennedy wants to stop raising money for the DOE to join the U.S. Senate. (Times)
- Hundreds of kids are vying for scholarships to elite private schools. (Daily News)
- Six principals are pulling in the big bucks for supervising suspended teachers, not schools. (Post)
- State ed officials suggest a $1B drop in state school aid next year. (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle)
AND BEYOND:
- Applications are way up at Teach for America. (Washington Post)
- Who will Obama pick for education secretary? (AP)
- People are realizing that NCLB won’t be revised for at least a year. (Baltimore Sun)
- Michelle Rhee’s media attention hasn’t won over her critics in D.C. (Washington Post)
- Thousands of schools nationally are on potentially contaminated sites. (USA Today)
- Scarsdale has eliminated AP courses, but not too much has changed. (Times)
- Jay Mathews memorializes a master teacher who eschewed the easy jobs. (Washington Post)