Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Plan to save teachers from layoffs falters
By | June 16, 2011, 10:28am UTC - Unions are divided over a plan to avert layoffs. (GothamSchools, Crain’s NY, Daily News, Times, WSJ)
- A watchdog group says the plan is nothing more than a “fiscal gimmick.” (Citizens Budget Commission)
- A New Jersey school district is set to limit homework to 10 minutes and ban weekend projects. (Times)
- A Harlem senior endures tragedy after tragedy to earn full college scholarship next year. (Daily News)
- For the second day in a row, union masses gathered downtown to protest budget cuts. (NY1)
- At a town hall Q&A, Walcott ducked the hard balls to celebrate his daughter’s birthday. (GothamSchools)
- The city defends a plan to move Tribeca students into Chinatown school. (DNA Info)
- After Jaime Oliver criticized L.A. schools for too much flavored milk, the district banned it. (HuffPo)
- Chicago’s school board voted to rescind a planned 4 percent raise for teachers. (WSJ)
- A school yard billboard about the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards was defaced (Carroll Gardens Patch)
- Joe Williams: The NAACP/UFT lawsuit has put Bloomberg’s education legacy on the line. (Post)
- The Post backs Williams up, saying Bloomberg would prove himself by ending “last in, first out” layoffs.