New York Times (On Education)

By MICHAEL WINERIP
July 24, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/nyregion/at-best-schools-competing-for-best-performers-students-may-be-left-behind.html?pagewanted=all

Mary Otero was not going to make the same mistake with her 11-year-old, Aaliyah, that she had made with her two grown children. They had both gone to Dewey — the neighborhood school, Charles O. Dewey Intermediate School 136 [...]

By FERNANDA SANTOS
Budget belt-tightening threatens to send school librarians the way of the card catalog.
The schools superintendent in Lancaster, Pa., said he had to eliminate 15 of the district’s 20 librarians to save full-day kindergarten classes.
In the Salem-Keizer school district in Oregon, all 48 elementary and middle school librarians would [...]

By ALAN SCHWARZ
WASHINGTON — Amid one of the most contentious periods in recent memory for teachers’ unions, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, on Monday called for education reform that emanates from teachers and their communities, rather than from “those who blame teachers for everything.”
“Let’s refuse to [...]

By: Lindsey Christ
Though New York City schools are being slammed with heavy budget cuts, a close look at the education budget reveals that close to $900 million will be spent on technology next fiscal year. NY1’s Lindsey Christ filed the following report.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg still calls himself the “education mayor,” but [...]

Posted By Philissa Cramer On June 28, 2011 @ 4:30 pm
A program that helps teachers pay for classroom supplies is set to be shut out of City Council funds.
For more than a quarter of a century, the council has assigned some of its discretionary funds to the Teacher’s Choice program, which gives [...]

By FERNANDA SANTOS
Tying student achievement and school financing in a new way, the city’s schools chancellor has reversed an unpopular move by his predecessor, allowing individual principals to roll over all the money they save from one year to the next — but only if their schools perform well on the [...]