Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Poverty rate among city students up to 70 percent
By | August 14, 2012, 11:02am UTC - Nearly 70 percent of city students are so poor they are eligible for free lunch, up since 2009. (NY1)
- For the Hamptons set, summer has turned into a time for students to take test prep classes. (Times)
- SED named the companies that it chose to create a data system. (GothamSchools, WSJ, Daily News)
- An audit by the state comptroller found sloppy accounting at two large high schools. (SchoolBook)
- A district school that didn’t get the go ahead to replicate is looking to the charter sector. (GothamSchools)
- The city broke ground on a larger building for Beacon High School. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook, Post)
- Chancellor Walcott has a broken finger, and his joke about its origins beats the real story. (Daily News)
- School started — with newly extended days — for a third of Chicago schools on Monday. (Tribune)
- Cami Anderson’s reforms are moving quickly in Newark, winning her friends and enemies. (Star-Ledger)