November 30, 2011
The highly-regarded Brookings Institute has a new study out today which grades 13 cities on the “critical role of school choice.” NJ’s cities aren’t on […]
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November 17, 2011
New Jersey’s application to the Feds for a waiver from the strictures of No Child Left Behind includes a wishlist of legislative bills that would […]
November 3, 2011
Great Moran piece today on the splintering of NJ Democrats over issues of race, leadership, public unions, and, yes, education reform. At issue is whether […]
October 21, 2011
Great Wall St. Journal piece today on “the tragedy of American politics.” This tragedy is the opposition of civil rights groups like the NAACP that […]
October 19, 2011
NJ’s DOE received 42 charter school applications this week. (NJ Spotlight, The Record, Philadelphia Inquirer.) Twelve are redo’s – applicants rejected in previous rounds – […]
October 14, 2011
John Mooney in NJ Spotlight describes the Senate Education Committee hearing yesterday on two controversial charter school bills where the “vocal opposition” came not from […]
October 13, 2011
Julia Sass Rubin, a founding member of Save Our Schools-NJ, has an editorial in NJ Spotlight urging the passage of Bill 3582, which would subject […]
October 11, 2011
I’m taking a bit of heat in the comments section for my post yesterday (see below) regarding an essential difference among NJ’s Interdistrict Public School […]
October 9, 2011
In the midst of New Jersey’s preoccupation with charter schools last week (as well as my own: see here and here), one important aspect has […]
October 7, 2011
When is a bill not just a bill? When it’s A 3582, which directs that the NJ Education Commissioner “shall not approve an application for […]
October 5, 2011
Amidst all the will-he-or-won’t-he Christie fog on the Jersey windshield, it’s been easy to miss this week’s stream of articles and editorials on charter schools. […]
September 27, 2011
One tiny piece of charter legislation passed the Senate yesterday: Bill S1858, which allows parochial schools to convert to public charters, with the condition that […]