Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Monday, 12/22
By | December 22, 2008, 1:25pm UTC - An advocacy group says the DOE isn’t helping pregnant and parenting teens enough. (Daily News)
- Schools that share buildings deal with special challenges. (Times)
- A Brooklyn school librarian scrimps and saves to fill her shelves. (Times)
- Students at a Brooklyn school say a teacher used a racist slur in class. (Daily News)
- A Queens middle school spent $40,000 getting free professional development. (Post)
- DUMBO might not be getting a new middle school after all. (Brooklyn Paper)
- Linda Darling-Hammond says U.S. educators should look to Singapore and Finland. (Newsweek)
- New Jersey is considering holding school board elections at the same time as regular ones. (Times)
- A California judge has blocked the state’s plan to require all 8th-graders to take algebra. (AP)
- Ramon Cortines discusses his new job as Los Angeles schools superintendent. (L.A. Times)