Rise & Shine: Budget cuts trim back I.S. 318's famed chess club

By 
Philissa Cramer
 | January 31, 2013, 11:51am UTC
  • Kristof: I.S. 318’s chess team helps me stay positive about covering poverty, but it needs help. (Times)
  • School bus drivers say the city declined to halt their strike. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook, NY1, WSJ)
  • Gov. Cuomo could impose teacher evaluations. (GS, Times, Post, Daily News, WSJ, NY1, SchoolBook)
  • Democratic mayoral candidates talked education before city principals. (NY1, Post, SchoolBook)
  • Local leaders in the Bronx are reviving a tabled bid to open a new charter school. (Riverdale Press)
  • The father who of a boy who was robbed of $5 thinks the police reaction at P.S. 114 was too harsh. (Post)
  • A retired teacher says more tutoring and family support could boost diversity at elite high schools. (Post)
  • Schools across the country are doing away with teaching cursive handwriting in the digital era. (WSJ)
  • The organization Behind the Book has sent authors into city public schools for a decade. (WSJ)