May 7, 2013
My column today at NJ Spotlight examines Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan’s rewrite of New Jersey’s charter school laws. While there’s much to like about it, including […]
- All
- Asbury Park
- Brightbeam Network
- By The Numbers
- Camden
- Communities
- COVID-19
- DOE News
- Education on the Ballot
- Educational Equity
- Election2025
- Explainers
- Featured
- General
- Is the Teachers Union Too Powerful?
- Jersey City
- Lakewood
- Local
- Montclair
- Newark
- Newark Truth
- News
- NJER Commentary
- Opinion
- Parent Voices
- Paterson
- Policy
- Press Release
- School Choice
- School News
- State
- Teacher Voices
- Technology
- Trenton
- Tutoring
- Video
- Voices
April 4, 2013
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at the state takeover of Camden Public Schools in the context of NJ’s successful Abbott preschools. Two weeks […]
April 2, 2013
At last night’s NJ Spotlight Roundtable entitled “Camden Schools and the Future of Urban Education in New Jersey, Camden School Board Member Sean Brown (a […]
March 1, 2013
From yesterday’s NJ Spotlight article on NJ’s progress towards updating our charter school laws: “This is exciting,” said Carlos Perez, executive director of the New […]
February 20, 2013
The Asbury Park Press looks at inequities in facilities funding between NJ charter schools and traditional schools. The piece highlights Academy Charter High School in […]
February 15, 2013
The Riverbank Charter School of Excellence in Roebling, NJ announced that it was withdrawing its proposed expansion. John Mooney at NJ Spotlight has the background […]
February 4, 2013
There’s a new CREDO report (Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes) on how to identify high-performing charter schools and encourage their expansion. You can […]
January 11, 2013
My piece today at WHYY Newsworks examines KIPP’s application to the Camden School Board to open several charter schools under the auspices of the Urban […]
January 7, 2013
The Star-Ledger Editorial Board has a sharply-edged rebuke to the Christie Administration’s failure to rebuild crumbling schools in cities like Trenton. This scolding was triggered […]
December 20, 2012
Everyone’s talking about the way Diane Ravitch linked the heroism of Sandy Hook’s teachers to their union affiliation, and the school’s non-charter status. At best, […]
December 14, 2012
A few thoughts on Cami Anderson’s recent “data-driven, frank discussion” of the gaps between Newark’s traditional public schools and alternatives offered to children: charters and […]
December 14, 2012
Two weeks ago the big New Jersey education story was the CREDO report, which surveyed student outcomes in NJ’s charter schools and found that, while […]