March 30, 2017
Earlier this month the New Jersey Department of Education announced the closing of three charter schools in Newark: Newark Prep, Merit Prep, and Paulo Freire […]
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January 27, 2017
A new teacher’s pension is supposed to be a perk. The truth is that for the majority of the nation’s new teachers, what they can […]
January 3, 2017
The New Jersey Teachers Pension and Annuity Fund (TPAF) will be drained dry on June 30th, 2027, about eleven and a half years from now. […]
November 15, 2016
Accept my apology, dear readers, for forgoing my annual rant about the NJEA Convention, which takes place in Atlantic City on Thursday and Friday in […]
October 17, 2016
On Saturday the NAACP voted for a resolution urging an indefinite moratorium on the expansion of charter schools. This was no surprise: everyone had predicted […]
October 14, 2016
Riffing off my piece earlier this week (hey, Tom, how about some attribution?) the editor of the Star Ledger notes that “the expansion of these […]
October 11, 2016
Allow me to take a wild guess: New Jersey’s newly-anointed next governor Phil Murphy has never stepped foot in a charter school. Yet on Saturday, […]
September 27, 2016
The Consortium for Policy Research in Education has just released a working paper called “The Bubble Bursts: The 2015 Opt-Out Movement in New Jersey” (h/t: […]
September 22, 2016
The answer is an unequivocal “yes,” according to State Auditor Steven Eells, who just released a report detailing substantial flaws in the ways that N.J. […]
March 16, 2016
“I find it astonishingly unfair,” she said. “We are going to have to look at how we might intervene on behalf of this year’s graduating […]
March 1, 2016
Yesterday the New Jersey Department of Education announced the results of the most recent round of charter school authorizations. Three new charter schools were approved […]
February 16, 2016
“I will sue New Jersey Department of Education,” said Veronica Mehno, a parent from West Windsor. “I will sue them so bad. I will sue […]