- New York lawmakers don’t expect to vote on the charter cap until the day RttT applications are due.
- “Raising the cap won’t get us there,” Paterson said, pushing an elimination of the charter cap.
- Weingarten doesn’t want students’ results from one year compared to different students the next year.
- The NEA says there’s too little evidence that linking scores to tenure is effective.
- $700 million is a lot of money, but it’s not having much of an effect on NYSUT, Peter Murphy writes.
- Weingarten’s support for linking test scores to tenure could make things awkward for Mulgrew.
- Duncan wants local support and radical change, making it difficult for states to get both.
- Community Board 9 voted to give P.S. 186 landmark status to prevent its demolition.
- Paterson’s son, a student at Beacon HS, was caught and released by the NYPD today.
- A teacher succeeds in getting complaint letters taken out of his file and says he feels “paroled.”
- The city and UFT may have a contract, but its provisions are frequently violated, a blogger writes.
- Corey Bunje Bower compares NYC teachers to their peers in the ‘burbs.
- And the Queens gym teacher who punched a “Jersey Shore” cast member is being fired.