Rise & Shine: Queens AP with swine flu dies; more schools close

The Queens assistant principal with swine flu has died. (Times)
The DOE closed 5 more schools because of the flu. (Daily News)
The UFT said 18 more schools have swine flu epidemics, but it won’t name them. (Post)
Some are saying the DOE should have closed flu-affected schools sooner. (Post)
Families from Yonkers appear to be enrolling at one Bronx school en masse. (Post)
Some charter schools may be giving their heads outsized salaries and their heads’ families jobs. (Post)
In New Orleans’ new charter schools, principals are suddenly making lots of money. (Times Picayune)
The head of the NY Civil Rights Coalition says charters have propelled resegregation. (Daily News)
The number of HIV infections diagnosed in city teens is up amid a wider decline. (Post)
Gotham Gazette has excerpts from a recent forum on mayoral control that its publisher sponsored.
In a letter, Comptroller William Thompson says the DOE doesn’t successfully project for growth. (Times)
Is it really true that U.S. students do so badly compared to kids in other countries? Maybe not. (AP)
Education’s “Odd Couple” talked high expectations at Education Equality Day. (Washington Post)
Jay Mathews says schools need to do better about combating senioritis. (Washington Post)
The Times says government must do more to fix the nation’s “dropout factories.”
The race to fix a failing school in L.A. has pitted charter proponents against other reformers. (L.A. Times)