- Details on a budget deal between Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council emerge.
- Diane Ravitch: “The Obama agenda is the Republican agenda with a smile” and $100 billion.
- Checker Finn criticized the critical guide to Bloomberg’s schools, and now he’s paying.
- Most New York teachers oppose national standards, finds a union poll (52% pro; 32% con).
- Insideschools offers a rundown of the city’s newest transfer high schools.
- A Queens teacher writes in our Community section about life at an overcrowded school.
- Tom Vander Ark gives some back story to the Gates-backed “Early College” initiative.
- The way we’re following Iran news shows we all have to be editors now, especially teachers.
- The Harvard ed school will make all faculty articles available online, for free.
- Barone rounds up blogosphere coverage of the new arts NAEP scores.
- Why didn’t names like Diane Ravitch and Randi Weingarten weigh in on the scores?
- A new citywide G&T program, the one with that principal, is closing before it opened.
- Drew Carey, who’s with Reason TV, visits Locke HS, Steve Barr’s turnaround attempt in LA.
- A financial crisis at the Indiana teachers union is forcing the union to lay off employees.
- Sen. Tom Coburn is including school spending as some of the wastefulness in the stimulus.
- And Insideschools really could shut down without a surge of help. We try not to editorialize, but this is bad for the city. Please consider donating.