- The DOE announced Maura Keaney’s hire on the same day the city fined her $2,500.
- Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott says the NAACP’s decision to join the UFT’s lawsuit is “mind-boggling.”
- Hundreds of charter school parents are journeying up to Albany tomorrow to lobby lawmakers. (no link)
- Norm has video of Klein trying to make himself heard above the shouts at last week’s PEP meeting.
- Bloomberg’s offer to the UFT looks brazen, but another take is that it’s meant to avoid PERB’s decision.
- People who run schools like businesses have got it right, writes one blogger.
- Leo Casey says the DOE’s new grading system for next year ensures more schools will be closed.
- A teacher has concerns about the way New York’s RttT application alters removal hearings.
- Leonie Haimson: the school closure meeting was both inspiring and awful.
- Jay Mathews wants Rhee to stay, but he thinks she owes the city’s teachers an apology.
- Alyson Klein reports on the details of Obama’s new education budget.
- Illinois is preparing to cut funding for special education in Chicago.
- Andy Rotherham reminds Obama that he needs Congress to pass his $1 billion incentive plan.
- And today is the first day NYC parents can begin submitting kindergarten applications.