Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Queens teachers level charges of over-excessing
By | July 21, 2010, 11:14am UTC - Teachers at PS 222 in Queens say their principal excessed seven of them but is still hiring. (NY1)
- Merrick Academy charter school fired teachers by mail, possibly because of union activity. (Daily News)
- The Beacon teacher who took students to Cuba was banned. (GothamSchools, WSJ, NY1, Daily News)
- Retired testing analyst Fred Smith says better tests can’t happen until we know why they are bad. (Post)
- The Post is skeptical about state officials’ promises to make tests harder.
- New York joined dozens of states in adopting new national standards on Monday. (Times)
- City officials hope more free swimming lessons will reduce the rate of youth drownings. (NBC NY)
- The progressive Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn is hitting road bumps as it grows up. (Times)
- Detroit’s new plan for academic improvement is to spend more time on math and reading. (Free Press)
- After a policy change, white students will occupy more seats in magnet schools. (Chicago Tribune)
- Nineteen people were arrested in North Carolina in protests over diversity policies. (AP)