Rise & Shine: City shifting funds from school buildings to tech

By 
Philissa Cramer
 | May 18, 2011, 10:25am UTC
  • The city’s revised school capital plan shifts spending from physical buildings to technology. (NY1)
  • The Board of Regents voted to closed a year-old Bronx charter school in financial trouble. (Post, NY1)
  • The state teachers union says it might sue over test-score-heavy teacher evaluation rules. (WNYC)
  • Educators 4 Excellence’s founders say using test scores to judge teachers is just fine. (Daily News)
  • Teacher Arthur Goldstein says test scores miss a lot of what makes good teaching. (Daily News)
  • The Post says John King’s big challenge is wresting the State Ed Department from teachers unions.
  • Parents at PS 9 are trying to stop a charter school from moving in. (GothamSchools, Daily News)
  • Teenagers who burned PS 29’s playground say they were making a YouTube film. (Brooklyn Paper)