Music education is not included in New York City schools, which is a huge crime. Non-for profit organizations have gracially stepped up to fill the hole, however one organization, the Midori foundation, isn’t paying their instructors enough. Strike! Read more here.

Ann Barstow is part of a new blog, Feminist Law Professors.

Amy sends this article from the Times on one woman who sued the city on the grounds that it failed to provide an adequate education for her children. Michael Rebell, who is THE education finance dude, said that the courts have traditionally not provided private school tuition to individuals. Liked this line: In a memorandum to Justice DeGrasse, Eric J. Grannis, Ms. Payne’s lawyer, wrote that her two youngest children could not wait any longer. The two children, 10 and 12 years old, he wrote, “are not cryogenically frozen, waiting to emerge from a state of suspended animation when the state gets its act together to fulfill its constitutional duty.”

And Suze points me to this Newsweek cover story on the growing concern about educating boys. Please no comments on this yet. I’ll write a post.