- Ruben Brosbe uses basic math to show that his students have spent many hours taking tests recently.
- Charter school funding is rising while other school budgets are falling; both have growing enrollment.
- The City Council passed a resolution requiring the city to try to fix schools instead of closing them.
- Eight hundred Insideschools readers are evenly split on four different ways to carry out layoffs.
- Two East Village moms propose letting schools that reduce their energy consumption keep the savings.
- Speaking at a fundraiser for Jewish education, Chancellor Klein described his recent visit to Jerusalem.
- Controversially, a Brooklyn charter school chain is offering students $100 to get friends to apply.
- Figuring out who decides what qualifies as passing on state tests is an essential task, Fred Smith argues.
- For the first time ever, the federal government is funding successful charter school replication.
- Eduwonk hears that there could be only 70 USDOE innovation fund winners, from 1,669 applications.
- Arne Duncan says he supports Tom Harkin’s education jobs bill, but the White House isn’t sure it does.
- Rick Hess doesn’t think much of a California congresswoman’s idea for funding school improvement.