Sunday Leftovers
March 18, 2012Weingarten and Kopp on Teacher Retention
March 19, 2012Christie Administration’s New Approach Towards Separate and Unequal
That’s the subject of my column today at NJ Spotlight.
Over the past few months, the Christie Administration has intensified its focus on New Jersey’s failure to provide educational equity. While our wealthier kids score top marks on assessments of national achievement, many poor students attend schools where most kids don’t meet basic levels of proficiency in reading and math. In some of our neediest schools over 40 percent of third graders can’t read at grade level.
This disparity in achievement is old news, inflated by our rampant home-rule ethic, which segregates schoolchildren into 590 economically disparate school districts, and by New Jersey’s relatively high test scores, which statistically compound achievement gaps.
But here’s what’s new: New Jersey seems poised to formally acknowledge this bifurcation of our K-12 public education system by forging ahead with a reform-oriented agenda mostly oriented towards failing schools.
Read the rest here.
3 Comments
Laura, when are you (and the Governor) going to acknowledge that many of New Jersey's worst schools are domiciled in STATE-RUN districts?
You wanna talk reform? Let's talk about a DoE that can manage its own business before dictating to the rest of us.
Hi, Kallikak. There are only 3 districts under state control. But I agree — the DOE needs to get its act together.
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