- In other states, charter schools usually don’t outperform district-run schools, a new report (pdf) concludes.
- A different report (pdf), by a group that boosts charter schools, gives New York’s state charter law a B.
- States with charter school caps (like this one) have a year to lift the caps to get federal money.
- A teacher lets her students know how she really feels on her last day working in the school.
- An NYC teacher says he is pulling his child from public school after getting this year’s teacher again.
- A teacher secretly wished that she would get a reason to leave her school next year. She didn’t get one.
- Pissed Off Teacher has an authentic-sounding letter from a union rep to a teacher in the reserve pool.
- After an appeal in the Daily News, Insideschools advised its supporters about how to send donations.
- Is the Department of Education monitoring ARIS’s “clicks per school”? If so, is it happy about the results?
- Kids these days! An upstate teen was arrested for preventing his teachers from grading his work.
- Letters about admission to gifted programs are going out late, for the second year in a row.
- On the origins of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s Obamicon.
- A siting fight in the Bronx turned into an existential battle for Co-op City’s new charter school.
- A Florida teacher who was suspended after letting students vote an autistic child out was reinstated.