October 14, 2015
It’s no secret that teacher unions look askance at charter school expansion. There are several reasons for the backlash against alternative public schools. Some labor […]
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October 14, 2015
Andrew Martin, former teacher and current director of special projects at KIPPNJ, drills down on student achievement data in Newark. He’s honest about former superintendent […]
October 13, 2015
Imani Thornton, a graduate of Chicago’s Southland College Prep charter school and a student at Princeton University, has a few words of advice this morning […]
October 12, 2015
Over the last couple of weeks, elders associated with anti-choice lobbying groups have mounted attacks on the expansion of hybrid charter/traditional schools, also known as […]
October 7, 2015
An editorial in yesterday’s Wall St. Journal argues that philanthropists committed to improving education should give up on donating directly to public schools – Mark […]
October 5, 2015
Last week the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and WNYC hosted a panel that included Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Superintendent Chris Cerf, KIPP’s Joanna Belcher, and […]
October 2, 2015
Today NJ Spotlight looks at Camden Public Schools’ plans to create a single enrollment process for parents who register their children in district schools. From […]
September 25, 2015
Education Law Center is back on the charter-hating trail again as it determinedly battles impoverished parents in long-failing districts who prefer school choice. Yesterday the […]
September 14, 2015
It starts here: Ras Baraka hasn’t just cooled the campaign rhetoric, he’s proven that he knows the value of eclectic and diversified approaches to a […]
September 11, 2015
The Star-Ledger asks, “where did that $200 million to Newark Public Schools go?” The biggest chunk, 44.6%, went to labor and contract costs: “$48.3 million […]
September 11, 2015
Bellwether has just issued a “briefing book” called “The State of the Charter School Movement” which “reviews the current state of play of the charter […]
September 9, 2015
Cerf told the school board and members of the public at the meeting that he was “unalterably, authentically, and completely committed” to local control. He […]