August 16, 2018
“We in Trenton are adamantly opposed to charter school expansion,” Trenton Superintendent Dr. Fred McDowell said Wednesday at a community meeting on the subject. “We […]
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May 14, 2018
Donna Siminski is Director of Policy and Advocacy for the New Jersey Charter School Association with a focus on the policy issues impacting the the […]
April 10, 2018
The State of New Jersey is building a new school for Trenton Central High students and staff at the cost of $117 million because Trenton […]
April 5, 2018
State unions are typically united. When the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) speaks, it speaks for all of its local bargaining units. But a recent […]
March 23, 2018
When my husband Dennis and I were getting ready to move from upstate New York to a new home within a reasonable commuting distance to […]
February 26, 2018
(This piece, originally published at Education Post, is by Tre Johnson, a freelance writer on race, culture and politics. He’s also an educator, advocate and part-time […]
January 26, 2018
The Star-Ledger reports that the International Academy of Trenton (IAT), a public charter school serving grades K-5, is being shut down for failing to meet […]
December 18, 2017
New Jersey charter schools continue to narrow the achievement gap on the third year of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) […]
November 30, 2017
The Civil Rights Project has a new academic paper out called “New Jersey’s Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward,” a follow-up to a report on […]
October 17, 2017
This Mother Feels “Blessed” To Have Her Children in a N.J. Charter School: a New Report Tells Us Why
Last week wrote about the New Jersey Charter School Association’s new analysis, “20 Years of New Jersey Charter Schools: A State of the Sector Report,” […]
May 3, 2017
This is a picture of a young boy receiving physical therapy in an appropriate room in his school.. Now click on this link and look […]
October 17, 2016
On Saturday the NAACP voted for a resolution urging an indefinite moratorium on the expansion of charter schools. This was no surprise: everyone had predicted […]