Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Bloomberg hangs legacy on selective schools
By | September 17, 2013, 10:59am UTC - Bloomberg’s highest performing schools are selective. (GothamSchools, NYT, Post, NY1, Schoolbook)
- Now that Bill Thompson conceded, the UFT will back Bill De Blasio. (GothamSchools, NYT, Politicker)
- Many city teachers will be rated this year on test scores of students they don’t teach. (GothamSchools)
- New York is switching to a new high school equivalency diploma next year. (Albany Times Union)
- Bronx parents who piloted online kindergarten admissions give mixed reviews. (Daily News)
- Many states are trying to figure out how to tackle chronic school absences. (USA Today)
- A Bronx middle school added ninth grade and 97 percent of the eighth grade stuck around. (DNA Info)
- The principal of a diverse Crown Heights neighborhood school stresses parent involvement. (DNA Info)
- Illinois changed the way it grades schools after more students failed its state tests. (Chicago Tribune)