Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Snow day! Plus, the charter debate rages on
By | March 2, 2009, 12:47pm UTC - Snow has closed the city’s schools today, for the first time in more than five years. (NY1)
- Thousands of parents turned out for a Harlem fair to publicize school choices. (Post, Daily News)
- Some are concerned that charter schools are hurting traditional public schools. (Times)
- Forty-two new schools are opening this fall, the mayor announced yesterday. (Daily News, NY1)
- The nearly 250-year-old original Erasmus Hall building is falling down, and no one is fixing it. (Times)
- Parents are debating whether the high cost of private school is worth it in this economy. (Times)
- New York City kids participated in a national science fair this weekend. (Post)
- Parents and teachers weigh in on class size in letters to the Times.
- Jay Mathews says better teachers, not smaller classes, are worth the expense. (Washington Post)
- Across the country, schools are reporting more homeless students. (MSNBC)
- Some say that Black History Month, which just ended for this year, is obsolete. (Newsweek)
- Remember the Harlem teacher who went missing last fall? She had dissociative fugue. (Times)