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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Remainders: Ed school professors favor tenure reform | GothamSchools

Remainders: Ed school professors favor tenure reform | GothamSchools

Remainders: Ed school professors favor tenure reform

  • More than 80% of ed school professors favor making it easier to terminate teachers. (Fordham)
  • Bloomberg refused to say if he’d sign a contract that included teacher seniority rights. (Daily Politics)
  • Two charter school backers are among the NYC stars on a “40 under 40″ list. (City Hall News)
  • What if ed schools only accepted pupils once they’d already tried out teaching? (Goldstein)

As city overhauls school progress reports, release is kept quiet

New York City is releasing its annual report cards for every public elementary and middle school tomorrow, and though this event is usually the focus of the week’s news cycle, city officials are trying to keep the release quiet.

Last year, when 97 percent of elementary and middle schools received an A or B on their progress reports,