Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Bloomberg, Cuomo fighting over schools budget
By | March 29, 2011, 10:35am UTC - Schools are at the center of Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo’s budget deal squabbling. (WSJ, Post)
- Bloomberg says the budget requires layoffs; Cuomo says there’s actually a schools surplus. (Daily News)
- The budget deal spared five special education schools in New York City and six others statewide. (NY1)
- Chief Academic Officer Shael Polakow-Suransky makes a list of 40 New Yorkers under 40. (Crain’s)
- Both urban and suburban schools in New Jersey have been found to be underfunded. (N.J. Spotlight)
- The head of America’s Federation for Chess is pushing the game in elementary schools. (USA Today)
- The second-highest-scoring elementary school in North Carolina will close for budget reasons. (WSJ)