Rise & Shine: DOE catches more fire for school bus system

  • Families and City Council members blasted the DOE’s bus services at a hearing. (NY1Daily News)
  • Chemist Robert Lefkowitz is the eighth Bronx High School of Science alum to win a Nobel Prize. (Post)
  • Several schools will be eligible for the much-belabored “turnaround” grants after all. (GothamSchools)
  • Most schools in the city’s test monitoring program were already under investigation. (GothamSchools)
  • The Post says the struggles of the UFT Charter School underscore larger problems within the union.
  • A parent who crunches downtown demographic data says overcrowding will continue. (Tribeca Tribune)
  • A New Orleans school board challenger raised money from Joel Klein, among others. (Times-Picayune)
  • Los Angeles’s schools chief is getting another year on the job, but no performance bonus. (L.A. Times)
  • Bronx students created fake Facebook profile to catch an IT staffer in inappropriate conduct. (Post)