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By | March 16, 2011, 9:34am UTC - International comparisons suggest boosting U.S. teachers’ skills and status could help schools. (Times)
- MS 391 in the Bronx faces closure for the third time, but supporters say it has made gains. (Daily News)
- The new technology-themed school that IBM is planning to open has steep ambitions. (Gotham Gazette)
- Both budget proposals in Albany reduce cuts to schools, but not by enough, advocates say. (WNYC)
- State Senate Republicans’ bill rolls back some of the grounds for layoffs from the original bill. (Post)
- There’s no middle school extension for Staten Island fifth-graders in an autism program. (Daily News)
- Retired Yankee Bernie Williams is donating musical equipment to the South Bronx’s IS 162. (Daily News)
- It’s not exactly true that 82 percent of schools will be labeled “failing” under No Child Left Behind. (AP)