May 31, 2016
Last week Education Law Center (ELC) filed an appeal of N.J. Education Commissioner David Hespe’s approval of seven charter schools expansions in Newark. ELC claims […]
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April 26, 2016
“There is a tiresome debate in education as far as, ‘Do you fix education to cure poverty or do you cure poverty to cure education?’ […]
April 21, 2016
That’s Lavar Young, Newark City Director for the Black Alliance for Educational Options, who told the Star-Ledger, “I think it was really a coming out […]
April 20, 2016
The Newark School Board election results are in and the winners are Kim Gaddy, Tave Padilla, and Leah Owens. These results are notable in two […]
April 18, 2016
Newark School Advisory Board elections are tomorrow and there’s much at stake for New Jersey’s largest school district. Within the next year or so (most […]
April 14, 2016
Talk about how education, particularly the ability to exercise school choice, impacted your childhood and your life? I am a product of the transformative power […]
March 30, 2016
Misha Simmons, Executive Director of University Heights Charter School (UHCS) in Newark, describes his student population (90% African-American, 10% Hispanic, 85% eligible for free breakfast […]
March 28, 2016
Earlier this month Newark Mayor Ras Baraka gave his “State of the City” speech and devoted a long section to education. This is important not […]
March 24, 2016
Everyone knows it but just about everyone is afraid to say it: New Jersey’s school funding formula is irreparably broken. For proof, legislators need to […]
March 22, 2016
Marcus Winters notes that “the rapid expansion of charters has done more to spread high quality education in America’s cities than perhaps any other modern […]
March 18, 2016
Jersey Jazzman is on a tear: he’s just published his fifth installment of an ongoing critique of Stephen Chiger’s piece in The 74, (see my […]
March 15, 2016
Leave it to Jersey Jazzman, a.k.a., Mark Weber, to take offense — and then become offensive — after reading someone else’s opinion that might not […]