Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Mayoral candidates float their education ideas
By | October 5, 2012, 11:04am UTC - Bill de Blasio said he’d tax the rich to pay for universal pre-k. (GothamSchools, Times, Daily News, Post)
- John Liu wants to spend $176 million to hire 3,000 guidance counselors. (GothamSchools,Daily News)
- A teacher filmed his lonely workday in a “rubber room” that is not supposed to exist. (Daily News, Post)
- Parents, students, and principals pan the cell phone ban, but officials say the policy won’t change. (AP)
- About 300 currently excessed counselors are cycling into schools on a weekly basis. (GothamSchools)
- Now more than fully integrated, there is a new campaign in Boston to dismantle citywide busing. (Times)
- One early result from Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative was lower suspension rates. (GothamSchools)
- The city is belatedly proposing to co-locate two Queens schools to alleviate overcrowding. (News)
- A new school has excess space after the city mistakenly sent students to crowded neighbors. (DNA Info)
- NCLB policies are at the root of burnout that is driving some teachers out of the school system. (Times)
- An allegedly drunk bus driver on Long Island drove a bus carrying five children into a house. (WSJ)