Quotable
"Am I optimistic that they can avoid it? I am not." --Ray Graves, a retired bankruptcy judge who has been advising Robert Bobb, Detroit Public Schools' emergency financial manager
WSJ: Detroit Schools on the Brink
Notable
1554 : The number of New York City public school teachers given the rating of "unsatisfactory" this year. The 2005-2006 school year saw 981 get that rating. Overall, about 2 percent of the teachers, both tenured and not tenured, received a "U" rating this year.
GothamSchools: More than 500 extra teachers rated "unsatisfactory" this year