November 22, 2015
A letter to the editor in yesterday’s Star-Ledger: As someone who has spent more than a decade working with Newark students in both traditional public […]
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November 18, 2015
From today’s NJ Spotlight’s preview of an interview with Mary Alice Williams and Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf. Could this really be the Newark school district? […]
November 18, 2015
A rapidly growing number of Newark parents want a voice and they want choice. They want our school and elected leaders to stop following a […]
November 10, 2015
Political discussions are often infected with false dichotomies, and the pros and cons of charter schools are not immune from this virus. Some charter advocates […]
November 5, 2015
Yesterday Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf gave his annual report to the N.J. State Board of Education and, according to the Star-Ledger, honed in on fiscal […]
November 2, 2015
Here’s a letter to the editor from Christine Carter, a Newark Mom and member of the parent-driven Hands Our Our Future Collective. Ms. Carter wrote the […]
October 29, 2015
On Monday night the Newark School Advisory Board held its monthly meeting, with an added feature of a Newark Teachers Union “walk-in” to protest charter […]
October 27, 2015
Last night about 200 opponents to school choice attended/disrupted the Newark School Advisory Board meeting. Here’s coverage from the Star-Ledger and NJ Spotlight. The outcry […]
October 26, 2015
Critics of charter schools often claim that the reason for some of these independent schools’ superior student growth results from “skimming,” or admitting higher-achieving kids […]
October 20, 2015
Here’s Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s response yesterday to the announcement that KIPP NJ, wildly popular with parents, will add five schools and over 5,000 seats: […]
October 20, 2015
Emmanuel Felton at Hechinger reports on the the resignation of Chris Barbic from his position of superintendent of Tennessee’s Achievement School District, the state-run district […]
October 16, 2015
Here’s Newark School Advisory Board member Rashon Hasan after hearing the announcement on Wednesday that KIPP charter schools had filed an application with the state […]