This and That
From Ed Week , New York State lifts disciplinary action against teachers who discuss test questions that the state has released. A reader asked about a threat at Ingraham High School in the cafeteria by a student with a backpack. A staffer asked around and not a single student knows about this. In this day of phones with cameras and social media, that would seem odd. I'm thinking someone was trying to stir the pot here. Don't do that. Last spring, Mayor Murray had his Education Summit. I was there as were hundreds of other people. He said this about homeless students in SPS (transcript from the Mayor's office, dated April 30, 2016):