Rise & Shine: Teaching spots exempt from L.A.’s hiring freeze

• Queens schools with low progress report grades are worried about their fates. (Daily News)
• Will Chancellor Joel Klein be staying on for Bloomberg’s third term? No one knows. (City Hall)
• After a bad day at Brooklyn’s IS 281, a 13-year-old with autism hid on the subway for 11 days. (Times)
• Lawmakers are recommending few city students to attend the national military academies. (AP)
• One who does, a Hunter College HS graduate at West Point, was just named a Rhodes Scholar. (Post)
• Los Angeles now has a hiring freeze for all education positions except teachers. (SF Chronicle)
• In a letter, the Ford Foundation’s president says there’s hope for public schools. (Wall Street Journal)
• Obama’s plan to boost math and science includes a national science fair. (Wall Street Journal)
• An audit found that a national civics education group misspent nearly $6 million last year. (USA Today)