Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Details of Silver's mayoral control plan trickle out
By | June 11, 2009, 11:12am UTC - Shelly Silver’s Assembly mayoral control plan barely curbs the mayor’s power. (Times, Post, Daily News)
- As budgets are slashed and enrollments fall, some schools are cutting entire departments. (Daily News)
- A state audit found that schools are selling junk food in violation of city policy. (Post, Daily News, NY1)
- A Bronx school made families buy uniforms twice, after the first were never delivered. (Riverdale Press)
- The Post praises Husly Rivera, the Brooklyn student with 14 years of perfect attendance.
- Kids at a Queens school are learning history by digging up a 10-year-old time capsule. (Daily News)
- A principal resignation sheds light on the process to replace school leaders. (Riverdale Press)
- Most states are seeing more students seeking free lunch. (USA Today)
- Hong Kong has closed all primary schools for two weeks because of 12 swine flu diagnoses. (AP)
- Arne Duncan pushed national standards and teacher quality to the Christian Science Monitor.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to see his state move as much teaching material online as it can. (AP)
- As jobs disappear, enrollment in GED programs has gone up. (Christian Science Monitor)