- Mayor Bloomberg and Randi Weingarten were in Albany today to advocate for the city’s school funds.
- Some states are already revamping their annual tests, per Arne Duncan’s instructions.
- The United Federation of Teachers explains its side of the KIPP union decertification story.
- Mike Petrilli says Duncan’s most recent hires are pretty good — for union leaders.
- Jennifer Freeman, one of the plaintiffs in the school siting lawsuit against the DOE, speaks out.
- Via Politics K-12, Rolling Stone says Duncan is the country’s 98th top change-maker.
- Insideschools has a first look at all of the new elementary and middle schools opening this fall.
- Sara Mosle on KIPP: Their diffuse geography makes the schools hard to consider as a broad solution.
- Some in the teachers union want action over the 1,700 teachers still without permanent positions.
- A look at the man behind Hunter College’s charter school teacher training program.