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 […]
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February 26, 2016
From the Associated Press: With new data in hand, the Education Department said Tuesday that disparities persist in the nation’s public schools, where oftentimes minority […]
December 15, 2015
What’s a high school diploma worth? That question underlies much of the current disputes about higher standards for schoolchildren. Historically we’ve flung around high school […]
September 24, 2015
Superintendent Duran, who has held the top post at Trenton Public Schools since July 2012, announced that he was leaving immediately to take over as […]
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 […]
February 12, 2015
Trenton Public Schools announced this week that it will lay off 113 teaching positions in order to try to close a $19 million budget gap.. […]
December 16, 2014
The Trenton Times reports today that district administrators are trying to bring back more students with disabilities into district schools. At a school board meeting, […]
September 26, 2014
It starts here: Charter school opponents were in mourning this week after they failed to derail a set of amendments to a 2012 bill called […]
September 23, 2014
My parents (may their memories be a blessing) would have loved Blue Jersey, that unabashedly 60’s-ish website that drapes itself in bellbottoms and peace signs. […]
August 26, 2014
Late Sunday night yet another Trenton Board of Education member resigned, leaving only four members of the nine-member, mayor-appointed group, one less than a quorum […]
May 14, 2014
Today’s column here: Among various New Jersey elections yesterday, Newark and Trenton’s mayoral contests pivoted on concerns about the growing influence of education reform on […]
May 13, 2014
The Times of Trenton (sadly diminishing into a local version of the Star-Ledger as the paper prepares to close its Trenton office and make do […]