Teacher News of the Day

UFT President Randi Weingarten was a guest on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC:

and on News Forum on WNBC (which isn’t online yet, but the Daily Politics has a transcript). More here, here and here.

Did the Department of Education hide reports of abuse on public school buses? More here and here, and Mayor Bloomberg answers questions.

Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum finds city offices charged with helping parents of kids with special needs aren’t picking up the phone.

Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch on teaching democratic citizenship.

NYSUT on proposed changes to NCLB.

The conviction against one of the Jena 6 gets thrown out.

Meet Dan Brown, author of the “The Great Expectations School,” a book about his experience as a New York City Teaching Fellow, and blogger at the Huffington Post.

Read for the Record will be in NYC at 30 Rockefeller Plaza this Thursday from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.

And here’s Chancellor Klein’s appearance on the Colbert Report:

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