August 16, 2023
Gov. Phil Murphy, through his education department, has a long history of refusing to allow public charter schools to expand, despite the long lists of […]
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August 10, 2023
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents have become more assertive in demanding educational rights for their children. Yet I think both the Democratic […]
August 8, 2023
One of the struggles for families who live in large low-performing districts is finding the best public school for their child. Two of our largest […]
July 13, 2022
The ramifications of this pandemic will take years to unpack but here’s one thing we know for sure: support for school choice—particularly vouchers and expansion […]
July 7, 2022
Homeschooling used to be relatively rare in New Jersey–until COVID-19 hit and schools closed. In the pandemic’s wake, homeschooling rates have risen. In school year […]
January 24, 2022
Everyone from President Joe Biden to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to AFT President Randi Weingarten has championed the cause of reopening schools to address […]
October 19, 2021
Last week New Jersey resident Makarand Bidwai filed a Public Interest lawsuit* against Gov. Phil Murphy in the civil division of the State Supreme Court. […]
October 14, 2021
Why do “school choice” advocates never advocate eliminating school district boundaries/funding schools by local property tax and allowing poor, Black students to attend white, wealthy […]
August 16, 2021
New Jersey school district leaders and parents are expressing increasing frustration with the lack of concrete guidance from the state Department of Education for reopening […]
November 30, 2020
Those of you who follow me know I rarely have anything nice to say out-going U.S. Secretary Betsy DeVos and her Education Department. She’s eliminated […]
November 16, 2020
When I first started this blog twelve years ago as a neophyte in the education reform world, one of the first like-minded people I met […]
October 26, 2020
This morning Change Research and the New Jersey Children’s Foundation released a poll that shows Newark’s public charter schools are broadly popular among all city […]