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  1. Bloomberg: we see challenge to turnaround worst 5 percent of schools and will double it - wants to close worst 10 percent of NYC schools.
  2. Bloomberg also says he will ask Klein to sue if Albany doesn't lift the charter cap.
  3. Bloomberg, in DC, says NYC will evaluate teachers up for tenure this year using student test scores.
  4. Gates foundation backing off from NYC giving until state changes tenure law: http://bit.ly/62UmYT
  5. Steve Barr leaves Green Dot to work on nat'l ed issues, KPCC reports: http://bit.ly/6EGsua. Green Dot clarifies he'll still sit on board.
  6. One half of the GothamSchools team is heading off to see Arne Duncan's favorite artist, Neko Case, in concert: http://bit.ly/3bbfoE
  7. Sad news from Chicago's schools: http://bit.ly/1npcu4
  8. NYS will file #RttT application in first round, will unveil central platform, a teacher training initiative, on Monday. http://bit.ly/4sac2u
  9. Lehman High School, where we reported evidence that student grades had been changed, won't get a progress report grade. http://bit.ly/1Y6kh6
  10. Just got a media advisory from USDOE: Race to the Top guidelines out Thursday, it looks like.
  11. @TheJLV Did you realize the overall number was so high? crazy.
  12. More from the white paper (http://bit.ly/1wWTx0): More than 1 in 4 NYC math teachers began their careers as teaching fellows.
  13. White paper: "Nearly 3.8 million teachers work in our schools, but there are simply not enough good ones to go around" http://bit.ly/1wWTx0
  14. New Haven grappling to include parents in its school reform drive: http://bit.ly/qYjSd
  15. A late addition to today's Rise & Shine: Francis Lewis HS students protested against the school's extreme overcrowding: http://bit.ly/2ddIP5
  16. NYPost triple-bylines a story about a suspended teacher (http://bit.ly/2Jv2wI) that the Riverdale Press ran 2 weeks ago http://bit.ly/4btaMA
  17. Big weekend: RT @NYCSchools Good luck to all 8th graders taking a Specialized HS Admissions Test this weekend!
  18. Dept of two-way streets RT @UrbanEducation A student informed ME that I needed a hug today and guess what..she was right! ;-)
  19. DOE paid $374,000 to a Canadian hypnotherapist from Bear Stearns (via Daily News) and more in today's headlines: http://bit.ly/LtiYF
  20. Tisch, re: charters and small schools: "that is a group that has always been allowed to cream off the top."