Adam Masin
New York Daily News
“New York parents won an important victory in March when a judge ruled that a lawsuit could go forward against New York’s teacher tenure and firing laws for violating children’s constitutional right to the education they deserve.”
By Maggie Haberman
The New York Times
“An education-focused news outlet run by the journalist-turned-advocate Campbell Brown plans to host presidential forums for both parties, with the first one held in New Hampshire.
The Seventy Four, a site recently created by Ms. Brown, a former CNN anchor who supports charter schools and overhauling the education system, will host the forums with the American Federation for Children, she said.”
By Geoffrey Canada
New York Daily News
“In the 1960s, when I was a young boy growing up in the South Bronx, the poorest Congressional District in the United States, children around me were being lost to gangs, crime, drugs and lousy schools.
I, though, was sustained by a dream. My mother, a single woman, and my grandparents convinced me that if I went to school, worked hard and graduated from college, I could get out of the neighborhood, get a good job and live a “good life.””
By Katharine B. Stevens
New York Daily News
“In a little-noticed legal action Wednesday, the state teachers union is once again attempting to toss out the teacher tenure lawsuit launched last July, which argues that New York’s laws protecting educators from termination violate children’s constitutional right to a “sound basic education.””
By Jason Russell
Washington Examiner
“NEW ORLEANS — Abusive teachers prey on students in classrooms across the country — and too often there’s nothing parents can do about it. Laws actually protect many teachers from being fired even when it’s clear they are guilty of wrongdoing.”
By Gerson Borrero
City & State
“As the unresolved battle surrounding the New York State assessment of students’ academic achievement rages, City & State Editor-at-Large Gerson Borrero discusses the issue with Derrell Bradford, Executive Director of the New York Campaign for Achievement Now and a member of High Achievement New York.”