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By | June 11, 2013, 10:57am UTC - New York City has hired the Parthenon Group to make a plan to save school networks. (GothamSchools)
- The city has chosen the middle schools that will extend the school day this fall. (GothamSchools, Post)
- Regents scores for immigrant students at the International School for Liberal Arts soared last year. (Post)
- Forty Kinsborough Early College HS students will get associate’s degrees after four years. (Daily News)
- A Harlem charter school that serves students with autism will expand some features. (GothamSchools)
- Maryalice Blackmore, the 17-year counselor at M.S. 180 in the Bronx, is up for an award. (Daily News)
- City Councilman Robert Jackson has come out against the prospect of de-zoning District 6. (Daily News)
- The Post praises Anthony Weiner for being the only candidate with a plan for student misbehavior.
- Student suicides led ritzy East Hampton to build bridges with its growing Hispanic population. (Times)
- The rise of computer-based testing is giving rise to new forms of cheating and cheating prevention. (WSJ)
- Texas’s governor signed a law reducing the number of tests required for graduation from 15 to five. (AP)
- Students have struggled to pass some of the exams being eliminated in Texas. (Dallas Morning News)
- Douglas County, Colo., is launching a teacher pay scale that favors some subjects and grades. (Reuters)
- Chicago’s schools chief announced a five-year plan that focuses on accountability. (Tribune, Sun-Times)