Every weekday I’m sharing the top education stories I find in my morning reads. Here are today’s: Hawaii’s education department posted a furlough-free calendar for 2010-2011, Milwaukee could have saved almost 500 teaching jobs if the union had approved new health care plan and a study shows the SAT may hurt blacks.

• The Hawaii Department of Education posted a furlough-free calendar for next year, KHON reported today.

• Jay Matthews at The Washington Post highlighted a study showing that the SAT hurts blacks. The original publication is in The Harvard Educational Review here.

• EducationNext uses two articles to look at what led Milwaukee’s school system to laying off 482 teachers — and here’s a hint: It has to do with compensation.

• Pittsburgh joins the ranks of pay reformers and is pilot testing a new pay model for teachers, Education Week reported today. The EdWeek story is subscription-only, so here’s an overview of the new plan (and other new local pay schedules) that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published earlier this week.

• The Hechinger Report published an article today about how for-profit colleges and their supporters managed to delay a Congressional proposal that could end up shutting down private school programs nationwide.

• Alabama’s schools superintendent plans to bill BP for lost tax revenues — that would be paying for education — due to the Gulf Coast oil spill, The Birmingham News reported last week. And if it doesn’t pay up, he’ll sue for the kids’ sakes. Looks like this week other education leaders are getting worried now as well, ABC reported. Another paid article at EdWeek today does a roundup of some of the districts affected by the spill.

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