September 8, 2015
Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger runs the numbers: Let’s start with the kids. At last count, 26 percent of Newark students attended charter schools, a […]
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September 8, 2015
“My fellow [Newark Teachers Union] members: we are in a war; we are a labor union. We will act like a labor union at war; […]
September 3, 2015
Speaking of Newark, earlier this week the New York Times ran a front-page feature on Mayor Ras Baraka that celebrates him as a practical and […]
September 3, 2015
Newark students started school today in an atmosphere that appears to be a marked contrast to the agitation and unrest last year. The Record reports […]
September 2, 2015
The Newark School Advisory Board, reports the Star-Ledger, has a reasonable request: the state Department of Education should turn around district accountability evaluations, at least […]
September 1, 2015
Jonathan Alter explains today why “liberals should learn to love charter schools.” His key example is New Orleans, where “over the last decade, graduation rates […]
August 31, 2015
Last week Chris Stewart, native of New Orleans and graduate of the its public school system (“My NOLA education sucked. Badly.) blogged about how “a dedicated […]
August 27, 2015
Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf has trimmed the city’s school budget deficit from $40 million to somewhere between $15 million to $20 million, but not without […]
August 26, 2015
When I was an elementary school student in Queens, New York City, I attended my local public school, P.S. 115. (NYC schools are often numbered […]
August 24, 2015
There’s a new kind of fairy tale in the annals of those who denigrate efforts at education reform. It goes something like this: 1) Beleaguered […]
August 6, 2015
From today’s Wall St. Journal: Newark’s new schools chief, Chris Cerf, said Wednesday he wants to keep an open door to city leaders.In some cases, […]
August 5, 2015
Last week Theresa Luhm, managing director of the Education Law Center proposed a timeline for a transition to local control for Newark Public Schools. But […]