Rise & Shine: An urban strategy for handling rural test questions

• The Board of Regents approved a “credit recovery” policy that allows online makeup work. (Post)
• Harlem Success students visit farms to prepare them for farm-themed state test questions. (Times)
• Hoyt’s bid to lift the state’s charter school cap wins praise, but legislators say it’s not needed yet. (Post)
• Nationally, the stimulus saved a quarter of a million education jobs, a report says. (Washington Post)
• The city says 14,000 education jobs were saved here, 10,000 more than the report claims. (Post)
• Forms for parents to consent to their child receiving the H1N1 vaccine went home yesterday. (NY1)
• Schools nurses say the vaccination campaign will take them away from other duties. (Daily News)
• In Los Angeles, school officials went door to door to get truant teens back in school. (L.A. Times)
• College counselors are taking on larger caseloads as schools cut budgets. (Times)
• Hawaii is responding to its budget woes by making its school year the shortest in the country. (AP)