Quotable

“We’re not trying to prevent the mayor from having control of the Department of Education, because, as anyone else, if I was the mayor of the City of New York, and I’m responsible for educating 1.1 million children, I too would want to have control over that.” –NY State Sen. John Sampson

NY Daily News: Sampson Seeks to ‘Enhance’ Mayoral Control

Notable

15 : The number of years for which the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago’s new report claims Chicago has seen no improvements in students’ reading and writing skills. The report claims that nothing Paul Vallas, Mayor Daley, and Arne Duncan have done has worked.

HuffPo: Education in Chicago: Chicago Public Schools Have Improved? Baloney!