Rise & Shine: Education front and center in heated mayor’s race

• Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson laid out his education plans in a speech. (GothamSchools, Times)
• Bloomberg attacked Thompson’s education record as head of the Board of Education. (AP)
• A new study shows that small high schools don’t always enroll the neediest students. (GothamSchools)
• The study casts doubt on Bloomberg’s graduation rate boasts about the new schools. (Daily News)
• Those claims and others about education are front and center in Bloomberg’s campaign. (NY1)
• The UFT thinks the DOE might not be following the new state ed law. (GothamSchools, Daily News)
• A dean at an all-boys Bronx high school was arrested for allegedly molesting a student. (Post)
• A science teacher at a Manhattan high school for girls get her students to explore the outdoors. (Post)
• Parents whose children’s day care programs fell to budget cuts are struggling to cope. (Daily News)
• Students at PS/MS 394 in Crown Heights helped design their school’s new playground. (Daily News)
• A new report finds that city high school graduates are ill-prepared for college. (Daily News)
• The Daily News says Caroline Hoxby’s study should end complaints about charter schools. 
• Schools using the Core Knowledge literacy program are doing well, Chancellor Klein said. (NY1)
• The suspicious test results reported in D.C. were all found in just six schools. (Washington Post)