OK, I lied. I said I wasn't going to post any more developments in the Ross/NEST saga, but this one was sort of interesting. The Ross Global Charter School will be moving into the Tweed Courthouse headquarters of the city education department.

Ross, you'll remember, had been slated to share space inside the elite NEST+m public school for PGT students (precious, gifted and talented) on the Lower East Side. But parents and staff at NEST mobilized (in impressive ways) and filed a lawsuit in attempt to stop it. Weeks ago, the city announced that Ross would not be put in NEST but that the host school's principal would be removed and taken to the administrative woodshed.

At Tweed, Ross will use the space that had been occupied by City Hall Academy, a pull-out civics program started by the Bloomberg administration. The academy now will be looking for space, presumably not inside the NEST building!

NY Times' David Herszenhorn writes that when Rod Paige was superintendent in Houston, he too turned over space in the schools' headquarters to a charter school. Daily News has the story here, and NY Post is here.