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  1. the third terminator
    Black Out: Bloomberg’s Third-Term RebootCathie Black couldn’t be salvaged, but Bloomberg’s third term still might be.
    By Chris Smith
  2. school daze
    Cathie Black Is Out As Schools ChancellorAfter less than five months!!
    By Chris Rovzar
  3. drugs
    Fourth Grader Sickens Schoolmates With CocaineResult: sore throats, furious parents.
    By Patrick Huguenin
  4. school daze
    City Unveils List of 4,600 Teachers to Be Cut If Albany Doesn’t Change ‘Last In, First Out’Naturally, the cuts would affect poor neighborhoods first.
    By Chris Rovzar
  5. school daze
    Sexy ‘Naked’ Lady Teachers Sue City for $2 MillionThey may be sexy, but they were NOT having sex when that janitor walked in on them.
    By Chris Rovzar
  6. good deeds
    Bobby McFerrin’s Son Teaches Blind Students to BeatboxAt the Lavelle School for the Blind in the north Bronx, students are learning to beatbox from Taylor McFerrin, a teacher with percussive pedigree.
    By Patrick Huguenin
  7. newark
    Newark Asks Citizens How to Spend Zuckerberg GrantEveryone’s opinions are being sought out.
    By Bryan Hood
  8. nursery school
    Parents Form Task Force to Save Children’s Aid Society SchoolThe Greenwich Village institution’s imminent closure is being met with outrage.
    By Julie Earle-Levine
  9. early and awkward
    Guy Who Might Actually Serve in Congress Wants to Abolish Public SchoolsThat’s how they did it in the 1800s!
    By Dan Amira
  10. schools
    A Short History of the New York Test-Score BubbleThe ‘Times’ recaps in detail how student achievement scores ran way ahead of reality, peaking during Bloomberg’s reelection.
    By Avi Zenilman
  11. people who can’t hack it in new york
    4-Year-Old Destined to Become Miserable Failure“The assessment concluded that the child ‘appeared to enjoy the game of “Simon Says,” but other skills were ‘more challenging, such as balancing on one foot.’” FAIL.
    By Jessica Pressler
  12. money woes
    Bloomberg to Avoid Teacher Layoffs by Canceling RaisesA total of 4,400 teacher jobs are saved.
    By Dan Amira
  13. justice
    Judge Okays Use of Term ‘Furburger’ in Classroom“If the Board of Education wants its teachers to instruct adolescents about HIV using Latinism of the academy, excluding vulgarism of the street, it should tell them so, plainly.”
    By Jessica Pressler
  14. sad things
    Jaime Escalante, Inspiration for Stand and Deliver, Dies at 79The East Los Angeles math teacher was one of the most famous educators in America.
    By Chris Rovzar
  15. terrible ideas
    This School in England Is the Worst School EverWho thought a fake school shooting was a good idea?
    By Dan Amira
  16. school daze
    Parents Irate Over Public High School Notification DelaysMany city kids don’t know when they’ll find out where they’ll go to school next year.
    By S. Jhoanna Robledo
  17. school daze
    Harvard and Stanford Tuitions Break $50,000That Harvard, always on top.
    By Chris Rovzar
  18. neighborhood news
    Someone, Possibly a Terrorist, Has Stolen a Brooklyn School’s Fiberglass CowWHYYYYYY!!!!!!
    By Dan Amira
  19. no touching
    Queens Principal Fired For Inappropriate TouchingNo touching!
    By Adam K. Raymond
  20. school daze
    Students All Hot About Hook-up TeachersA pair of lady teachers in Brooklyn have a school abuzz.
    By Chris Rovzar
  21. the first family circus
    Obama Outs Daughter Malia’s 73 Score on a Science TestSomewhere, Chelsea Clinton is grimacing in commiseration.
    By Chris Rovzar
  22. neighborhood news
    Report: Bronx High-School Principal Changed Grades for Better Graduation RateAll in order to get a $25,000 bonus.
    By Chris Rovzar
  23. client 9
    College Co-eds Already Hitting on Professor Eliot SpitzerPretty soon City College is going to look like the opening scenes of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’
    By Chris Rovzar
  24. everything is socialist
    Obama to Indoctrinate, Nag, Bore Students TodayThe president’s controversial back-to-school speech revealed!
    By Dan Amira
  25. everything is socialist
    White House Backtracks on Brainwashing SchoolchildrenBecause everything Obama does is a socialist plot of some kind, obviously.
    By Dan Amira
  26. Bloomberg Regains Mayoral Control of SchoolsAnd peace swept over the land.
    By Dan Amira
  27. the third terminator
    Bloomberg Pulls Out the YiddishThat’s how frustrated he is with the Senate’s failure to pass the mayoral-control bill.
    By Dan Amira
  28. moms who are mad
    The Day the Sprinkles DiedOne mom has taken her battle against junk food in schools to new heights, and depths.
    By Chris Rovzar
  29. media deathwatch
    Communications-School Graduates Receiving Grim MessagesBasically, at Syracuse and Berkeley, they’re being told they’ll have to work for free.
    By Yelena Shuster
  30. school daze
    Katie Couric Cracks Up Princeton, Slams Palin, RumsfeldThe CBS anchor sharpened her normally soft humor for the school’s Class Day address.
    By Chris Rovzar
  31. neighborhood news
    City to Reopen P.S. 151This should go some way toward calming parents … for a little while.
    By Jessica Pressler
  32. panic-demics
    City Hopes Students’ Thirst for Knowledge Supercedes Impulse for FunStudents affected by schools closed by swine flu are going to the mall, despite the Department of Education’s wishes.
    By Dan Amira
  33. senior citizens
    Cranky Old Man Fears Ivy League FemalesNobody wants a “female, dainty, tearoom atmosphere,” you know.
    By Jessica Coen
  34. suffer the little children
    Kindergartners Pray That School Doesn’t Lose Gifted Tests AgainAll the tykes have to retake their smart-kid test.
    By Jessica Coen
  35. blobs and the people who own them
    Nightmare on West 84th StreetPublic School 9 on the Upper West Side accidentally misplaced tests taken by 60 pre-kindergartners and kindergartners for the city’s Gifted and Talented programs. Uh-oh.
    By Jessica Pressler
  36. early and often
    Paterson’s MTA Budget Plan Includes School Tax Reimbursements, Taxi SurchargeLooks like schools may be off the hook for raised payroll taxes, but the plan to make cabs even more expensive is still on.
    By Chris Rovzar
  37. school daze
    Bronx Teacher Sets Good Example With Fake Bomb ThreatNobody was hurt and the kids got some fresh air on a nice day. Win-win?
    By Dan Amira
  38. camelot
    Caroline Kennedy Is Alive, But Stays Quiet on Senate ControversyBut she isn’t getting any Fashion Week invites.
    By Maridel Reyes
  39. scenes from a meltdown
    Greenwich Village High School Won’t Open Next YearThe educational brainchild of a handful of Waverly Inn types didn’t make nearly enough money to start admitting students.
    By Chris Rovzar
  40. early and often
    Obama Frightens SchoolchildrenThe day goes horribly awry when Obama says probably the worst thing you, a young student, could possibly imagine hearing.
    By Dan Amira
  41. school daze
    Kerrey Facing No-Confidence Vote From New School Faculty?Just like the one he got from Democrats in the 1992 presidential primary!
    By Chris Rovzar
  42. the most important people in the world
    Cynthia Nixon Lashes Out at Trump, BloombergIn a ‘Daily News’ editorial, the actress criticizes development and school changes on the Upper West Side.
    By Chris Rovzar
  43. obamamania
    Long Island School Renamed for ObamaThat didn’t take long.
    By Dan Amira
  44. election hair of the dog
    Obama’s Really Important DecisionsYou think picking secretary of State is hard? Try choosing a school, church, chef, or dog!
    By Dan Amira and Chris Rovzar
  45. More Than 1,000 Names on Petition to Block Schools Czar From Cabinet PostSay it ain’t Joe, locals plead to Team Obama.
    By Chris Rovzar
  46. neighborhood watch
    Slopies Turn On Berkeley Carroll SchoolPark Slope’s Berkeley Carroll School is so not feeling the love from its neighbors right now.
    By Tim Murphy