Remainders: State test scores to be investigated for inflation

Private and parochial schools want the same reimbursement from the MTA’s payroll tax public schools get.
After several requests, the state will allow a Harvard test expert to study whether score inflation is real.
First Lady Michelle Obama will speak at the commencement ceremony for a D.C.-area turnaround school.
The group developing common standards wants teachers to weigh in on their draft.
Jay Mathews says RttT is “like throwing money out of the fifth floor Post newsroom window.”
Kim Gittleson’s new analysis finds charter schools in city buildings spend less than their district neighbors.
A teacher has to dig and dig to get access to his new teacher data report.
Today was the first “Trayless Tuesday,” the DOE’s attempt to make lunchrooms environmentally friendly.
And a teacher chronicles each day of school, in comic form. (Via Miss Eyre)