Honor for Sternberg: Marc Sternberg, a Baton Rouge native who opened an innovative lab school in the Bronx, has been named one of 15 White House fellows for 2009-10 by President Barack Obama. Sternberg, 36, is the son of Hans and Donna Sternberg. He opened the Bronx Lab School in 2004, an independent public school that has won praise from the New York Times, The Economist and the Gates Foundation. Sternberg follows a distinguished list of White House fellows: graduates include former Secretary of State Colin Powell, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.
Raise the ceiling: A limit on the number of charter schools that can operate in Louisiana has been lifted by the state Legislature. In the session that ended Thursday, legislation by Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orleans, was amended to remove the current limit of 70 charter schools. Louisiana’s education department says the action could help the state as it seeks more federal education money. A news release says U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has indicated states that end the limits on charter schools will be viewed more favorably when the federal agency doles out money from the $4 billion Race to the Top program.
