- Teachers union lobbyist Paul Egan is one of NYC’s 20 most influential unelecteds.
- Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott has been going back and forth to Albany to negotiate RttT legislation.
- Bloomberg hasn’t donated to a pro-charter school group, but “maybe I should” he said today.
- Charter school skeptic Sen. Bill Perkins has two rivals arranging a sit down to take his seat.
- Teachers at the city’s only public school for deaf children worry about another school sharing space.
- The range in principals’ knowledge is partly why special ed service vary so greatly, writes Beth Fertig.
- A private school consultant says tutoring could explain the increase in kids eligible for gifted programs.
- Members of NY’s state teachers union sprung into lobbying action when the charter bill was announced.
- Rick Hess worries some states are going too far to win RttT’s round two.
- The Chicago Tribune backs a school voucher creation bill for students in the worst schools.
- And programs that prepare Texas’ teachers can’t agree on what to teach.