- Obama announced he will spend $250 million to train new math and science teachers.
- Room Eight says the UFT helped redirect class size reduction money and its lawsuit is a fraud.
- A former Queens high school principal is being accused of soliciting sex from his students.
- The popular principal of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School is leaving after only two years on the job.
- The UFT exaggerated the free and reduced price lunch gap in the South Bronx because of missing data.
- A new blog is satirizing schools’ focus on technology integration (via Robert Pondiscio).
- Jay Mathews thinks Obama ought to make a call and end the furloughs in Hawaii’s schools.
- Peter Murphy offers his own ideas to increase the number of special ed students in charter schools.
- As if the Jan. 26 PEP meeting wasn’t already impending chaos, the UFT will protest across the street.
- Edwize looks at how the schools that are slated to be closed have some of the most difficult students.
- Weingarten says union push-back to RttT is the fault of state governments taking too much control.
- Flypaper suggests NYS’s charter cap may be responsible for the city’s high-quality charters.
- Is “reprimanding” a teacher who proselytizes to students enough of a punishment?
- A teacher trying to improve a data sheet has to jump through bureaucratic hoops to get it approved.
- Sending your child to a public school doesn’t always mean the principal won’t know their name.
- Richard Blumenthal, a contender for Dodd’s seat in CT, is not a fan of NCLB.
- New Jersey is really scrambling to send in a RttT proposal and the teachers union isn’t happy.
- As part of Cleveland’s new school reform plan, a third of the city’s schools could be shuttered.
- And apparently it’s school closing season in Chicago, too.
