- The Chicago Board of Education met today for the first time since the death of its president, Michael Scott.
- Steve Barr is not leaving Green Dot, but rather stepping down as chairman; he’ll remain on the board.
- Meanwhile, Barr tells EdWeek that “all public schools should have charter-like funding.”
- Peter Murphy says that waiting to raise the charter cap means losing new schools.
- Teachers are no longer “educational dispensers,” they’re “educational architects,” Peter Pappas says.
- The Child Nutrition Act is up for Congressional re-authorization.
- Stephen Sawchuk observes that we have very few district-wide models for good teacher evaluations.
- Norm Scott wonders if the UFT knows what its contract strategy is.
- A teacher survey suggests many students’ hunger for food distracts them from their hunger for learning.
- And President Obama worried that robots made by D.C. high school students might take over the world.