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 […]
October 21, 2015
The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s first PARCC results yesterday afternoon. No surprises here: student proficiency scores were lower because the tests […]
September 15, 2015
The members of New Jersey’s “review” of the Common Core State Standards are faced with a thankless task: fussing over highly-regarded academic standards that were […]