January 30, 2014
From my column today at WHYY Newsworks: This is not Jersey’s best week. Revelations from Bridgegate, along with the peculiar backroom statecraft that spawned the […]
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January 15, 2014
How much airtime did Gov. Christie devote to education in his State of the State speech yesterday afternoon? The whole megillah was 4,213 words. (Here’s […]
January 8, 2014
Mashea Aston, CEO of the Newark Public School Fund, explains the district’s new system of universal enrollment among charter schools and traditional schools (Huffington Post): […]
December 23, 2013
There’s lots of chatter about Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s plan to close some of the city schools, although none more strident than the rhetoric from […]
December 20, 2013
Lots of news this week about Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s plan, entitled One Newark Portfolio Plan, to reorganize the city’s public schools,. Those plans include […]
December 9, 2013
In an hour Newark will begin its “National Day of Action to Reclaim Promise of Public Education” when a coterie of teacher union supporters gather […]
December 2, 2013
Tom Moran considers Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s decision to create a “universal enrollment plan”for the city’s charter schools and traditional schools. Currently aspiring charter school […]
November 27, 2013
Newark Public Schools announced a new initiative earlier this week: traditional public schools and charter schools will collaborate on a universal enrollment plan. Parents fill […]
November 25, 2013
from Shavar Jeffries, Newark mayoral hopeful: “38 murders in the South Ward this year and now you want a promotion? Really?” PolitickerNJ explains that the […]
November 22, 2013
courtesy of Southward Councilman Ras Baraka, aspiring mayor of Newark, regarding the NJ Department of Education’s ongoing control of Newark Public Schools: “The takeover of […]
November 22, 2013
“It’s a remarkable thing [Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson] is proposing,” said Ross Danis, CEO of Newark Trust for Education, an advocacy group. “It’s a level […]
October 7, 2013
In today’s Wall St. Journal, Lisa Fleisher lists the ways that Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson would have used a $30 million Race to the Top […]