Skip to main contentRemainders: How serious is this year's teacher layoff threat?
By | May 7, 2011, 12:48am UTC - Bloomberg’s budget suggests cutting 1 of every 12 teachers; criticism is rampant. (AP, GS, NYT, DN)
- Chancellor Walcott broke up a skirmish between reports at Bloomberg’s budget presser. (Daily Politics)
- Why did Bloomberg suddenly retract Cuomo criticism and his no-LIFO push? One possibility. (NYM)
- A qualitative report on a cash-for-good-behavior program to city families offers early findings. (MDRC)
- Challenging the idea that opposition to idealocrat reform only reflects a vocal minority. (Failing Schools)
- The NEA, which cast a no-confidence vote for Race to the Top, plans to endorse Obama. (Teacher Beat)
- Brizard hasn’t started yet, but Chicago schools central employees are already being let go. (Catalyst)
- The Chicago teachers union is pulling away from support of a change in state law. (Catalyst)
- What Diane Ravitch means when she says poor children deserve private school quality. (Flypaper)
- The gap between policy and practice is wide, say teachers working at the USDOE. (Ed Week)
- What Mitch Daniels might support on education, if he decided to run for president. (Politics K-12)
- Former educators argue that “mass customized learning” is Inevitable in a new book by that title. (LFA)
- In three states, lawmakers are pushing to reject the adoption of common core standards. (Ed Week)
- In some areas, Calif. spends $200,000 per student on education. (California Watch via Joanne)
- Some online education programs rely heavily on teachers, but some simply do not. (ED.gov)