A child at PS 231 in Borough Park was bitten by a rodent in class, the Post reports. Some confusion over whether the young lad was sitting in a dark closet for a "time out" and bitten by a rat, or sitting next to a cabinet (away from the naughty closet) and bitten by a mouse. Exterminators will check it out, no doubt along with a team of experts and lawyers from the state Ed Dept.

From what I am told, the city schools are close to making AYP in terms of closing the gap between rat and mice incidents under NCLB. How this one gets scored could impact nearly $1 billion in federal Title I cash. Expect months of meetings between city, state, and federal officials to hammer out a deal that says it was a mouse-like rat. The cash will keep flowing, because that's what it does.