Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Program for juvenile offenders gets a bumpy start
By | May 6, 2013, 10:51am UTC - The new city and state initiative to house juvenile offenders “close to home” is working out kinks. (Times)
- Institutions such as museums are stepping in to offer the science instruction some schools don’t. (NY1)
- The city education department is in the early stages of starting up an innovative digital bookstore. (Post)
- Kids at Brooklyn’s P.S. 188 get vision care through the UFT’s Community Schools program. (Daily News)
- At a parent-run forum, four mayoral candidates vowed to stop giving grades to schools. (GothamSchools)
- Just a reminder: If you want to sue the Department of Education, you must name the Board of Ed. (Times)
- The Queens PEP appointee pans the city’s recent high school admissions policy change. (Daily News)
- John Dewey High School, which almost closed, has found unlikely success on the stock market. (WSJ)
- Where one’s children will attend school continues to be a major factor in real estate decisions. (Times)
- Avenues, the new for-profit school, is trying to be different but starting to feel a little like Dalton. (Times)
- Across New York, fewer families than expected “opted out” of last month’s state tests. (Press Connects)
- Lee McCaskill, who resigned as Brooklyn Tech’s principal, is in hot water in his N.J. district. (Star-Ledger)
- Philadelphia is developing a housing colony to attract new teachers and education nonprofits. (Times)
- A Newark charter school that was supposed to help students is instead profiting off of them. (Star-Ledger)
- Schools in Columbus, Ohio, are under investigation for falsifying student records. (Columbus Dispatch)