June 6, 2016
From Politico: State Senate President Stephen Sweeney said he supported standardized tests and questioned the “hysteria” surrounding PARCC, New Jersey’s latest student assessment, during remarks […]
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May 31, 2016
Last week Education Law Center (ELC) filed an appeal of N.J. Education Commissioner David Hespe’s approval of seven charter schools expansions in Newark. ELC claims […]
May 27, 2016
Yesterday Gov. Chris Christie gave the keynote at the New Jersey Charter School Association Conference in Atlantic City. (I live-tweeted it if you want to […]
April 21, 2016
That’s Lavar Young, Newark City Director for the Black Alliance for Educational Options, who told the Star-Ledger, “I think it was really a coming out […]
April 12, 2016
I’ll be honest: until I read this Newsday interview with Hillary Clinton where she said that she would opt her granddaughter into state standardized tests, […]
March 30, 2016
Misha Simmons, Executive Director of University Heights Charter School (UHCS) in Newark, describes his student population (90% African-American, 10% Hispanic, 85% eligible for free breakfast […]
March 22, 2016
Marcus Winters notes that “the rapid expansion of charters has done more to spread high quality education in America’s cities than perhaps any other modern […]
March 18, 2016
Jersey Jazzman is on a tear: he’s just published his fifth installment of an ongoing critique of Stephen Chiger’s piece in The 74, (see my […]
March 16, 2016
Read the whole article but here are a few tidbits: Mayor Bill de Blasio…has embraced the United Federation of Teachers and its president, Michael Mulgrew, […]
March 15, 2016
Leave it to Jersey Jazzman, a.k.a., Mark Weber, to take offense — and then become offensive — after reading someone else’s opinion that might not […]
March 8, 2016
Just when it seemed like N.J.’s absentee governor Chris Christie couldn’t do any more damage to his brand, yesterday he managed to verify the perception […]
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 […]