- The DOE will rate teachers based on their students’ test scores, but an agreement with the UFT prevents the ratings from being used in tenure decisions or evaluations. (Times)
- A new charter middle school in Brooklyn’s District 15 will focus on the arts. (Brooklyn Paper)
- The DOE is telling teachers to take off their Obama buttons. (Post)
- To make sure he retains mayoral control of schools, Mayor Bloomberg is helping state Republicans try to retain a majority in the State Assembly. (Post)
- Schools in the Washington, D.C., area appear to be closing the achievement gap. (Washington Post)
- Boston’s new superintendent is planning a major reorganization of the city’s schools. (Boston Globe)
- An 1,500-person education protest outside the Cubs-Dodgers playoff game attracted little attention. (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Chester Finn of the Fordham Institute argues that the city’s progress reports are “so obvious, so sensible and so gutsy.” (Forbes)
UCLA management professor William Ouchi praises the “dynamic innovation” in New York’s schools under Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership. (Post)