February 11, 2021
Last Fall, I questioned Newark’s Superintendent Roger León for reporting to the Governor, our Mayor, and Newark parents that our city’s public school attendance rate […]
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February 10, 2021
Newark Superintendent Roger León is ratcheting up his war on the city’s charter schools, which are responsible for Newark’s standing as the best-performing urban school district in […]
February 5, 2021
It appears that the principal of Newark’s Central High School, Dr. Sharnee Brown, is taking lessons from former New Jersey Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet. For […]
January 27, 2021
Newark Public Schools recently announced a new policy: When parents choose schools for their children through the universal enrollment system called Newark Enrolls, they have […]
January 21, 2021
Newark Superintendent Roger León has announced the opening of three new high schools. Just one catch: Only students who meet a set of benchmarks are […]
January 15, 2021
I started this blog to vent and share my worries about our city in the middle of a pandemic. As I have continued to reflect, […]
January 13, 2021
Last week Newark Superintendent Roger León, cowed by the Newark Teachers Union, announced that Newark Public School would remain closed at least through April, an […]
January 7, 2021
Three cheers for the Newark Teachers Union. District students were scheduled to return to a hybrid schedule —two days in school a week, three days […]
December 22, 2020
(This first appeared at Newark Neighborhood View.) Earlier this month, I questioned the lack of actual learning time our students in Newark were receiving during […]
December 3, 2020
(This post first appeared in Newark Neighborhood View.) As you know from my previous blog posts, my daughter attends West Side High School. Over the […]
November 19, 2020
Martin F. Lueken of EdChoice (with an assist from @stateaidguy) has a new paper out called “Fiscal Analysis of an Education Savings Account Program in […]
October 29, 2020
This is the third in a series on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to parochial and private schools. The first one is here and […]