March 6, 2014
Here’s the beginning: “All is flux, nothing stays still,” said Plato, but you’d never know that in Camden. It’s still the worst school system in […]
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January 30, 2014
We’re awash in a new superstorm called Bridgegate whose land impact is TBD, but you can count on one thing in the next Legislative session: […]
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 […]
January 24, 2014
Blogging’s been light this week — blame it on my hubbie’s (minor) surgery – and maybe I’m crankier than usual. But, still, it felt like […]
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 […]
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 18, 2013
Just out from Associated Press: The new school superintendent in Camden says it was a “kick-in-the-stomach moment” when he learned that only three district high […]
December 17, 2013
There’s been tons of coverage of the decrepit conditions at Trenton Central High School, including this from the Huffington Post, that describes “leaky roofs, disintegrating […]
December 16, 2013
Four charter organizations have just been approved by the NJ Department of Education to open new schools in September. According to NJ Spotlight, the four […]
December 12, 2013
The Camden School Board just signed a $120,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed on behalf of three fifth-grade Hispanic children who were forced to eat […]
December 6, 2013
Big news for Camden this week: the school district there, under new leadership of Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard, has put out a Request for Proposals for […]
November 15, 2013
Angel Cordero, a Camden schoolchildrens’ advocate, reacts to the news that the NJ Department of Education is capping the number of children allowed to participate […]