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 […]
February 20, 2014
Read it here: Last week New Jersey Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf announced that he was leaving the Department of Education to head a new educational […]
January 28, 2014
The NJ Department of Education just released the 2013 School Performance Reports. From the press release: “New Jersey has one of the best public school […]
December 20, 2013
Lots of news this week about Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s plan, entitled One Newark Portfolio Plan, to reorganize the city’s public schools,. Those plans include […]
December 17, 2013
Yesterday the Assembly Education Committee heard testimony from the state auditor and New Jersey School Boards Association about the lack of fiscal accountability at NJ’s […]