Rise & Shine: Penn State scandal fallout hits a school mural

By 
Geoff Decker
 | July 17, 2012, 11:17am UTC
  • Officials in a Connecticut school district decided to take down a mural depicting Joe Paterno. (TheDay)
  • A new faction seeks to upend the electoral status quo in the teachers union. (GothamSchools)
  • Space tensions elevated between a struggling elementary school and a charter school. (Daily News)
  • A program provides physics teachers with long sought-after professional development. (GothamSchools)
  • Bloomberg traveled to the Queens Botanical Garden to tout a summer jobs program. (Times-Ledger)
  • One way to slow spending on pre-K special education spending is to crack down on fraud. (Times)
  • Top British education officials say privacy isn’t an excuse to withhold teacher performance data. (BBC)