Last week Mayor Baraka issued a statement on Newark Public Schools’ $72 million budget gap, bemoaning the fact that the deficit will raise local property […]

Nina Rees in the Wall Street Journal on “the union war on charter school philanthropists”: Charter schools are also closing achievement gaps. At Success Academy schools […]

I’m at #ewa (Education Writers Association convention) this week in Boston. Blogging will be light. Feel like chatting? Give me a holler. The New York […]

In “Opt Out: An Examination of Issues,” a peer-reviewed paper that is part of ETS’s Research Report Series, Randy E. Bennett analyzes “early press accounts” […]

From “Randi Weingarten’s Ugly Endorsement and the War Against Poor Students:” The facts about kids in the country’s public schools are as hard as they […]

NJ Spotlight reports that the quality of  New Jersey’s hospitals, once rated 5th in the country,  dropped to 22nd place after a non-profit watchdog group […]