Remainders: NY spends more on busing, most kids ride the rails

15 states (plus DC) have made it to the Race to the Top finals, but only a handful will win.
New York is among the finalists, but Mayor Bloomberg said being a finalist isn’t good enough.
Peter Murphy imagines a worst-case-scenario: NY wins RttT, but with so little money, it can’t do much.
The number of semi-finalists was both tough and fair says Education Sector’s Chad Aldeman.
Of the states that got Gates Foundation RttT planning grants, most made it into the finals.
Every school bus trip costs $19, while the city and state pay pennies for students to get free metro cards.
Some city schools were mistakenly told they were failing and, of them, many are being closed.
Charter school teachers who backed the union’s RttT bill were applauded at a union meeting.
A recent LaGuardia High School grad is starting a music program at his little sister’s school.
Teachers in NY and CA echoed the Gates teacher study findings on the Takeaway.
Teachers union caucus New Action lists all the reasons its different from everyone else at the UFT.