Rise & Shine: King won't cut the Common Core test scores

  • The education commissioner said he would stick with recommendations (GothamSchools)
  • The worst schools in Buffalo, as in NYC, are routinely flooded with the neediest students. (Buffalo News)
  • An outside organization is spending $9 million to bail out closing Catholic schools. (Daily News)
  • Even though it’s the summer, there’s still plenty of work to be done in the schools system. (Gazette)
  • A charter school backer with ties to Wall Street is asking friends to support Eliot Spitzer. (Post)
  • An anti-Bloomberg coalition presented its proposals, and avoided charter schools. (GSSchoolbook)
  • The Wall Street Journal praises Arne Duncan for admitting the student-loan program is “bogus.”