September 5, 2017
Last week AFT President Randi Weingarten hosted teachers from Newark, Perth Amboy, North Bergen, and Garfield for a meet-and-greet with gubernatorial shoo-ins Phil Murphy and […]
August 14, 2017
In an interview in today’s Star-Ledger, Newark Superintendent and former New Jersey Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf discusses the threat of a charter school moratorium, […]
August 2, 2017
“Pivoting” is an essential political skill when faced with a question you don’t want to answer. While I am eager to hear a non-pivot on […]
July 27, 2017
The New Jersey Department of Education just released our children’s 2017 scores on the state standardized PARCC tests in language arts and math. The news […]
June 28, 2017
The big news story today, of course, is U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell’s failure to summon enough votes to bring to the floor a bill that […]
May 31, 2017
There is a sector of schools in New Jersey that rigorously creams off top-performing students, provides little (if any) support for students with disabilities, doesn’t […]
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 […]
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 […]