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By | March 11, 2009, 12:45pm UTC - Analysis of Obama’s education speech. (Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal)
- New York City is already doing some of the things Obama suggested. (Post, Daily News)
- Less than a third of the charter schools opening this fall have found locations. (Insideschools)
- Even without research to back them up, some schools are trying single-sex classes. (Times)
- The DOE extended the deadline for parents to become candidates for district councils. (Daily News)
- A for-profit schools operator is buying up lots of real estate in the city. (Observer)
- A Williamsburg principal is giving a kidney to his son. (Daily News)
- A former Queens middle school teacher pled guilty to sending sexual materials to his students. (NY1)
- Schools are using the poor economy as a chance to teach financial literacy. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Senate Democrats dealt a crippling blow to the D.C. voucher program. (AP)
- The Daily News gives Obama’s education speech two thumbs up.