June 8, 2015
No one likes to lay off teachers: neither parents, students, administrators, board members. While an article in the Courier Post ably captures everyone’s dismay, it […]
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June 5, 2015
In response to concerns about summer retention – educationally-disadvantaged children lose up to three months of reading and math proficiency each summer – Camden Public […]
May 22, 2015
At a Newark Advisory School Board meeting earlier this week, Mayor Ras Baraka ended his comments to the Board this way (video here): “This is […]
May 21, 2015
It starts here: Last Friday Janice Williams, Grievance Chair of the Trenton Education Association, did us all a favor and cut through the political pantomime […]
May 20, 2015
From the press release: May 20, 2015–Office of the Superintendent, Camden, NJ – This morning Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard will join Camden Mayor Dana Redd at […]
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, […]
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 […]
May 7, 2015
Today Walter Bowne, an A.P. English teacher somewhere in South Jersey, argues in NJ Spotlight that PARCC test results should not be tied to his […]
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 24, 2015
NJEA is on a roll. Just over the couple of months New Jersey’s primary teacher union leaders have mounted a $15 million campaign (also see here) […]
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 […]