Rise & Shine: City to start billing schools for unpaid lunch fees

A Manhattan middle school for suspended students has gone all year without an English teacher. (Post)
The city is going to start billing schools for lunch fees when students don’t pay. (Insideschools, NY1)
The city is also planning to cut yellow-bus service for seventh- and eighth-graders. (S.I. Advance)
State Sen. Bill Perkins scrapped a follow-up charter school hearing without any explanation. (Post)
Basil Smikle, who is running to unseat Perkins, puts schools third on his platform. (Post)
Investigators found abuse at a special ed charter school. (GothamSchools, Post, Times, Daily News)
Schools are learning a lot from money managers’ quick action and attention to data. (Forbes Magazine)
Board members from Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School explain why their for-profit model works. (Post)
Laid-off teachers could get financial aid for special education training under a city plan. (GothamSchools)
Education Trust’s Kati Haycock says the city has the tools to make performance-based layoffs. (Times)
Bronx Science teachers say they’re worried about the school’s future post fact-finding. (Riverdale Press)
The “recession-proof” market for teachers is the worst it has been since the Great Depression. (Times)
AFT President Randi Weingarten argues that public schools need a massive federal bailout. (WSJ)
Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushed a federal jobs bill in a commencement speech. (Boston Globe)
Some educators are focusing on the pre-high school years to stem the tide of dropouts. (USA Today)
Texas is set to approve controversial, right-leaning social studies standards. (Wall Street Journal)
Massachusetts is considering replacing its challenging state tests with a common test. (Boston Globe)
After difficult months, Philadelphia’s schools chief will shake up her top staff. (Philadelphia Inquirer)