May 19, 2014
Camden Public Schools’ Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard’s office issued a press release today describing the logic behind the district’s downsizing of staff and announcing a series […]
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May 13, 2014
The Times of Trenton (sadly diminishing into a local version of the Star-Ledger as the paper prepares to close its Trenton office and make do […]
May 9, 2014
Everyone’s beating up on New Jersey’s special education system. Earlier this year a federal district court judge approved an agreement that requires the state to […]
May 6, 2014
NJ Education Commissioner David Hespe told the state Assembly Budget Committee that he “doesn’t know” if Gov. Christie will cut education funding to trim the […]
May 1, 2014
Both NJ Spotlight and the Star Ledger cover the discrepancies between Gov. Christie’s actual school district state aid, per his budget, and state aid calculated […]
April 29, 2014
Yesterday NJ Spotlight reported on the sorry fiscal condition of Lakewood Public Schools (Ocean County). On Friday Commissioner David Hespe announced that the State would […]
April 25, 2014
Just up at WHYY’s Newsworks: Is the opening of more charter schools in Camden City a cause for celebration or legal action? If you ask […]
April 17, 2014
It’s been a bad week for NJ’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, a highly-acclaimed program that allows students to attend schools outside district boundaries. Schools […]
March 25, 2014
Speaking of salaries, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports on an investigation from New Jersey Watchdog that found that an obscure unit of the NJ Department of […]
March 21, 2014
This week the National Association of Charter School Authorizers issued a case study of New Jersey’s charter school environment called “Growing Great Schools in New […]
March 20, 2014
Here’s the first part of my column today at Newsworks WHYY: Everyone’s talking about the political upheaval in Newark as Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries […]
February 25, 2014
As you all no doubt know by now, Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson has submitted a waiver to the NJ Department of Education to allow her […]