- The State Assembly, “puzzled” by Senate’s cuts, is planning school cuts closer to $800 million.
- Three Assembly Dems are asking the teachers union to put off raises to avoid layoffs.
- In a series on District 16, NY1 reports that the Community Education Council has only two members.
- The UFT’s consolation prize for budget cuts: a state resolution honoring the union’s 50th anniversary.
- SUNY voted to close the New Covenant Charter School today, but did so with six abstentions.
- U.S. schools will have to report more and different kinds of civil rights data this year.
- In a five-part series, a UFT member is outlining his problems with the 2005 union contract.
- The UFT’s school closure lawsuit has delayed high school admissions notifications.
- A teacher cringes when her students say there’s no one at school they trust on an official survey.
- The admissions letters are sitting at borough enrollment offices, but can’t be handed out yet.
- Nat Hentoff notes all the examples of what he calls “Bloomberg-style segregation” in recent news.
- Teaching students how to argue could lead to a more civil society, writes Jay Mathews.
- Chicago’s only all-male charter school is sending all of its high school seniors to college next year.
- And the “cadillac” tax on health benefits is likely to affect public school teachers.