Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Parents challenge city's gifted screening formula
By | May 16, 2013, 11:17am UTC - Parents with statistics expertise are questioning the city’s methodology for calculating giftedness. (WSJ)
- Advocates are concerned about the proposal in the city budget to cut school health clinics. (Daily News)
- Families and educators P.S. 186 in Brooklyn say its extended-day program is working. (Daily News)
- State legislative action on education seems unlikely this year given recent events. (GothamSchools)
- Bill Thompson set out a schools agenda. (GothamSchools, Times, SchoolBook, Post, Daily News, WSJ)
- Parents say all students who attend a sign-language school, not just deaf ones, should get busing. (NY1)
- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke to immigrant parents. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook)
- The city’s ethics board dinged a principal and teacher in two separate rulings. (GothamSchools, Post)
- Los Angeles is curbing suspensions for many school offenses, reflecting a national trend. (WSJ)
- Chicago’s teachers union filed suit over the city’s plan to close more than 50 schools. (Times, Sun-Times)
- A former U.S. DOE official is under fire for sharing federal information with his consulting group. (WSJ)