Rigging the Regents at Bayard Rustin?

Regents-rigging at Rustin, the Chelsea public high school, is indeed today's word from Yoav Gonen at the Post, who says not only is the school being investigated for score-rigging--it still managed to get an F.
(For the record, the last time I talked to Bayard Rustin students, they were expressing awe for a school in Baghdad--that's Baghdad, Iraq--which they told me seemed more orderly than Rustin.)

Other Headlines, or Looking Fearfully Ahead to 2010:

• Why is the state keeping pace with its Campaign for Fiscal Equity promise ($5.5 billion increase to schools over four years) while the city is cutting? Our Albany man Jacob Gershman explains that, when it comes to revenue-prognosticating, there is a city-state "pessimism gap." But don't count the next two years of the promise before they hatch. (Or next year, for that matter.) Governor Paterson's Negative Nancy quote: "We have to plan for the worst and stop kidding ourselves."
• Another former governor, Jeb Bush (Mayor Bloomberg's bosom schoolreform-buddy) is on the op/ed page at The St. Petersburg Times begging Floridians to support vouchers in the upcoming November ballot referendum.