January 6, 2017
Look at this picture. What do you see? A group of (almost all) white suburban people in front of the New Jersey Statehouse protesting the […]
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January 3, 2017
The New Jersey Teachers Pension and Annuity Fund (TPAF) will be drained dry on June 30th, 2027, about eleven and a half years from now. […]
December 9, 2016
I am typically a fierce critic of Professor Bruce Baker but this week I find myself in the delightful position of praising his scholarship. Not […]
December 9, 2016
Analysts at the Fordham Foundation created a rubric for gauging the difficulty of firing ineffective teachers based on these three metrics: Does tenure protect veteran […]
December 1, 2016
Leaders of the New Jersey Education Association often profess disdain for public charter schools. But how far will they go to stop expansion of a […]
November 15, 2016
Accept my apology, dear readers, for forgoing my annual rant about the NJEA Convention, which takes place in Atlantic City on Thursday and Friday in […]
November 3, 2016
The son of Newark mother Noemi Vazquez is one of 10 plaintiffs in a lawsuit called HG v. Harrington that was filed this week in […]
October 14, 2016
Riffing off my piece earlier this week (hey, Tom, how about some attribution?) the editor of the Star Ledger notes that “the expansion of these […]
October 11, 2016
Allow me to take a wild guess: New Jersey’s newly-anointed next governor Phil Murphy has never stepped foot in a charter school. Yet on Saturday, […]
September 27, 2016
The Consortium for Policy Research in Education has just released a working paper called “The Bubble Bursts: The 2015 Opt-Out Movement in New Jersey” (h/t: […]
September 8, 2016
Today the Star-Ledger marvels over the new Phillipsburg High School building, a “sprawling 326,000-square-foot school built atop a hill off Belvidere Road in Lopatcong Township.” […]
June 21, 2016
Jeff Bennett at New Jersey Education Aid asks this question: if Jon Corzine had won another term or Barbara Buono had beat Christie in New Jersey’s […]