The latest data from Tweed shows fluid movement among school districts and neighborhoods as students displaced by Sandy find new or temporary schools. Attendance rate for the relocated students was just 30 percent on Thursday.
The sights of the education community are shifting toward the Morris Educational Campus in the Bronx, where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will deliver his state of the city speech on Thursday, presumably with an emphasis on the schools. Critics of the mayor’s policies are focusing on the location of the speech, a symbol of the administration’s small schools policy.
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