May 13, 2015
Yesterday the Newark City Council, duly-elected representatives of Newark residents, passed a resolution that opposes Assembly bill 4351, sponsored by Patrick Diegnan and Mila Jasey, […]
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May 12, 2015
On Saturday the Star-Ledger published a lengthy editorial-cum-analysis on the pushback in New Jersey against high-performing charter schools, specifically KIPP NJ, which runs schools in […]
April 29, 2015
From Mike Petrelli and Aaron Churchill in the Wall St. Journal: As difficult and disliked as school closures can be, a new study being released […]
April 16, 2015
Newark Public Schools released data this week on parent preferences among the district’s seventy-two traditional and charter schools. The One Newark universal enrollment allows parents […]
April 15, 2015
Today’s NJ Spotlight reports on the second year of One Newark’s universal enrollment system, whereby parents get to rank their school choices: As they were […]
April 13, 2015
Today’s NJ Advance Media article (i.e., Star-Ledger) notes this July marks the 20th anniversary of state control of Newark. Over the last two decades, the […]
April 6, 2015
From today’s NJ Spotlight: Chris Cerf, Christie’s former education commissioner and arguably the chief architect of his reform approach, says great things are happening in […]
March 26, 2015
“The vast majority of opt-outs are taking place in non-urban, non-disadvantaged districts,” agrees [NJEA Spokesman Steve] Wollmer, “because parents tend to be better informed in […]
March 25, 2015
The new report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) is out from Stanford University and the results show that students who attend charter […]
March 23, 2015
One of the criticisms of charter schools is that they come into a neighborhood and supplant the traditional school, without serving as a ballast of […]
March 17, 2015
Much of the analysis of the public education system in Newark feels unreliable; everyone, it seems, has an agenda. “New Jersey and local school officials […]
February 20, 2015
I’m trying to figure it out too. We know that eight students, members of the Newark Students Union, have been camped out at Newark Public […]