Skip to main contentRemainders: D.C. contract on hold, charter cap back in the news
By | May 1, 2010, 1:02am UTC - The city’s Department of Education thinks the new charter cap bill is “a step in the right direction.”
- With 183 pieces of data, the system for grading schools is very complicated, writes Robert Gebeloff.
- Freakonomics interviews “pizza freak” Joel Klein and profiles School of One.
- A new England-inspired private school will open downtown this fall, with a $31,500 price tag.
- After her daughter was assaulted at Pathways College Preparatory School, a Queens mother is suing.
- Nearly a third more children qualified for the citywide gifted programs this year compared to last.
- More soon-to-be kindergartners in Queens met the bar for the citywide gifted programs.
- The state teachers union is mobilizing to sway senators before a vote to lift the cap on charter schools.
- Helen Zelon looks at what will happen to school choice if students can’t afford to travel.
- Arthur Goldstein: some teachers at Francis Lewis feel misled about the Gates study and may leave.
- A teacher who told his students he’d never let them go catches up with a former student.
- Teacher and students at Jamaica High School reflect on the school’s closure, which is now on hold.
- Teachers at Bronx Science waited for two years for an arbitrator’s ruling; the city rejected it in two days.
- Teachable Moment says, on the whole, the entire country’s school system doesn’t need revamping.
- The Promise Neighborhood grants are small, but they’re for planning, not implementing.
- Richard Whitmire’s book “Why Boys Fail” makes a convert out of Jay Mathews.
- And D.C.’s new teacher contract is on hold until the city shows it can afford to pay for it.