On any given school day, up to 40 percent of teachers in New Jersey’s Camden City Public Schools are absent from their classrooms. Such a
Board President Kathryn Blackshear said Monday she hopes a vote on the Norcross proposal will take place, though she said that remains hard to predict
That’s the subject of my post today at WHYY’s Newsworks. This past Monday, parents of three young Camden City Public Schools students filed a class
According to a media advisory released yesterday, three Camden parents whose children attend Camden City Public Schools will file a class action petition on Monday
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks is called “Camden’s Rejection of Private School Managers Highlights Bigger Debate Over Urban Education. Here’s the first part: Over
Violent assaults, drug dealing, gang fights — sounds like a poorly run prison. But that’s what kids in Camden have to contend with, when they
From my post today at WHYY Newsworks,”What’s More Important: Local Control or Student Outcomes?” In New Jersey, nothing gets our blood boiling faster than the
Education Law Center, standard bearer for poor minority students in New Jersey, issued a press release yesterday charging that Gov. Christie and Ed. Comm. Cerf,
Check out my new column at NJ Spotlight on the some similarities and differences between the radical public school overhaul in Philadelphia and the muted
There’s much fuss in Trenton over the Office of Legislative Service’s report that Abbott schools are being short-changed by Gov. Christie’s modifications to the school