Remainders: Bloomberg calls critics of city "embarrassing"

  • Mayor Bloomberg called rowdy critics of school closures “embarrassing” for America. (City Room)
  • The mayor also said protestors were mainly bad teachers concerned with job preservation. (Observer)
  • Reports from charter school inspections show low academic expectations. (Brooklyn Rail)
  • Insideschools is introducing video tours of some of the schools it profiles. (Insideschools)
  • What does it look like when Angry Kids join book clubs? (Miss Brave)
  • One teacher’s modest proposal to help her students pass the Regents: 24-hour school. (Pissed Off)
  • A Park Slope parent blasts the lack of transparency behind the city’s closure policies. (HuffPo)
  • Senators from Colorado and Washington are stepping up their roles in ESEA reauthorization. (EdWeek)