- NY’s failure to lift the charter cap has charter operators looking to more supportive states.
- Randi Weingarten went on Morning Joe to fend off claims that the UFT sunk NY’s bid for RttT.
- Arne Duncan says Katrina was good for New Orleans schools because it forced them to rebuild.
- Klein needs to learn the power of race and communities writes a UFT blogger.
- Norm chronicles the humble rise and growth of ICE, an opposition group within the UFT.
- Faced with a 2% (or 1.4%) raise, a teacher counsels the union to wait out the mayor’s tough talk.
- Elementary students’ production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is built around their testing schedule.
- Peter Murphy estimates how long it would take NY to reach its charter cap if it only had conversions.
- The National Council on Teacher Quality graded states’ policies and most of them basically failed.
- And as of this coming Monday, the school year will be halfway over.