Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Black heads to Albany to fight frightening budget
By | February 15, 2011, 10:32am UTC - Chancellor Black is set to appear in Albany today to oppose proposed education budget cuts. (NY1)
- The $580 million in school cuts Gov. Cuomo has proposed are especially deep and divisive. (Times)
- School funding advocates shouldn’t bother fighting the budget cuts, writes Bill Hammond. (Daily News)
- A DOE website was letting schools spend funds on sex-help books and cocktail guides. (Daily News)
- The educators behind Teacher U are opening a freestanding education school. (GothamSchools, Post)
- Educators 4 Excellence proposed a “last in, first out” reform that mirrors the city’s. (GothamSchools, Post)
- Achievement First East New York has sent an autistic student at to detention many times. (Daily News)
- The city’s one-school-per-week PCB testing turned up toxins at an East Harlem building. (NY1, WSJ)
- President Obama’s budget proposal calls for more Race to the Top funding. (Times, Washington Post)
- It’s a shame that Teach for America faces a $20 million federal cut, Richard Cohen writes. (Daily News)
- District and union officials from all over the country, but not New York, are collaborating in Denver. (AP)