weighing alternative options on transporting students to school.

that stalls debate on a longer school year in Iowa.

Tony Danza is back on TV and way out his normal element as a sitcom TV star as a high school teacher and assistant football coach in the latest reality TV show. Tony says in the show that he always wanted to be a teacher, but it never happened. He did some boxing, and then when on to star in the TV shows TAXI and Who’s the Boss. Then he hears president Obama saying people should give back so he decides to become a teacher.

The first show though was totally enjoyable even if it is an experimental type show that has him teaching just one class with 26 students in it. I felt it was real unlike a lot of the other stuff that is out their.

Tony is nervous and you can actually see it, even the students know it. I think he is just like a lot of first year teachers who feel like they are in over there heads and do not know what they are doing. He forgets to sign in on the first day. He even forgets to bring in a sheet of a paper for everyone in the class with some stuff on it. It is going to take him some time feel comfortable in the classroom.

Tony gets a classroom coach and he is going to need him a ton in order to survive the first year.

During the football game he leaves the field to speak with some of parents of the students that he has, a very interesting segment in the show.

I felt like the show had the right mix of comments from the students and from Tony. We get to learn from the students and from Tony. The hand sanitizers in the classroom is odd, but I will go for it.

I know I will be back for all this triumphs, and failures that Tony has throughout his first year at Northeast High.

The AP reports on for-profit colleges hit again in another Senate hearing on them. The New York Times also reports on the hearing as well.

The Oregonian reports on student loan default rates dropping for Oregon universities.

The Boston Globe reports on state colleges and universities that are urged to team up to seek funding.

The AP reports on Putnam Investments rolling out a new 529 plan that includes the choice of an absolute return mutual fund.

The Detroit News reports on GM giving out 100,000 grand in scholarships to local area students.

doing the reality TV show Teach was a good career move for him.

and his plan to make it easier for a charter school to open in the state.