NYC INTEGRATION PLAN
Digging into details of mayor’s diversity plan, critics see easy goals and iffy approaches chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2017/…
De Blasio Won’t Call New York Schools ‘Segregated’ but Defends His Diversity Plan nytimes.com/2017/06/08/nyr…
Grilled by reporters, de Blasio says he wants to ‘level with the people’ about school integration chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2017/…
A Manhattan District Where School Choice Amounts to Segregation, via @nytimes.
BEST OF THE REST
Welcome to Chicago’s Refugee High | Chicago magazine ow.ly/mRyL30cru2h
CA Advocates of 3-year teacher tenure face big decision edsource.org/2017/advocates…
Amid ESSA Backlash, New Mexico’s Controversial Education Secretary Quits blogs.edweek.org/edweek/state_e
How Schools, Parents And Organizations Are Trying To Close The Achievement Gap the1a.org/shows/2017-06-…
Science Teachers Are Getting Packages With Misinformation About Climate Change buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/cli… via @BuzzFeed
Nick Melvoin has a lot of ideas for L.A.’s schools fw.to/AOnNaLJ
Governor may stick it to Rahm by favoring Karen Lewis on the elected school board issue| Chicago Reader ow.ly/vP4230cqlJY
DeVos Says More Money Won’t Help Schools; Research Says Otherwise npr.org/sections/ed/20…
DeVos on Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ Program: ‘We’ve Seen That Movie cnsnews.com/news/article/n…
Board members want a local schools chief to apologize for graduation incidents washingtonpost.com/local/educatio
‘It’s not about politics’: 5 years in, education supe takes stock nola.com/education/inde…
However well black students perform, teachers still think they’re struggling huffingtonpost.com/entry/teacher-… via @blackvoices
Almost All Students Handcuffed in New York Public Schools are Black or Latinx sumo.ly/B0nJ via @Latina
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Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo is founder and editor of The Grade, an award-winning effort to help improve media coverage of education issues. He’s also a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship winner and a book author. You can reach him at @alexanderrusso.
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