Remainders: Broader implications seen in city-UFT tensions

The city’s intractable fight with the teachers union might point to deeper labor issues. (City Hall News)
A Hispanic male elementary school on being a minority teaching in a minority school. (Brent Nycz)
The straw poll in this year’s troubled parent council elections ends tomorrow. (City Room)
City Council suggestions to avert teacher layoffs: fewer contracts and more reimbursements. (Times)
A Brooklyn principal invited a star of a movie criticizing reform to be principal for a day. (Ed Notes)
A judgment in a federal lawsuit about bullying at PS 6 could have broad implications. (Gotham Gazette)
Rupert Murdoch, Joel Klein’s new boss, touted education tech at the G8 conference. (Guardian UK)
NYC’s old bugaboo of forced teacher placement is rearing its head in Denver. (Ed News Colorado)
How a California teacher juggles his love of history and the specter of state tests. (Mother Jones)
The season finale of “The Simpsons” stars Edna Crabapple in the rubber room. (Mike Antonucci)
Ed Sec Arne Duncan said for the first time that a federal curriculum would be illegal. (Politics K-12)
Los Angeles’s school board symbolically stripped parents of the right to revamp schools. (L.A. Now)