December 23, 2013
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone describes the hellhole of Camden, NJ (think “The Wire”) where 13,000 children go to school: [I]n Camden, chaos is already […]
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December 22, 2013
“Cami Anderson, the superintendent of schools in Newark, has proposed another round of sensible and bold reforms. And she is facing the predictable shrieks of […]
December 20, 2013
Lots of news this week about Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s plan, entitled One Newark Portfolio Plan, to reorganize the city’s public schools,. Those plans include […]
December 19, 2013
Did you hear about last Monday’s “National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education?” Maybe not. Despite a media blitz from the American […]
December 18, 2013
Just out from Associated Press: The new school superintendent in Camden says it was a “kick-in-the-stomach moment” when he learned that only three district high […]
December 17, 2013
Yesterday the Assembly Education Committee heard testimony from the state auditor and New Jersey School Boards Association about the lack of fiscal accountability at NJ’s […]
December 17, 2013
There’s been tons of coverage of the decrepit conditions at Trenton Central High School, including this from the Huffington Post, that describes “leaky roofs, disintegrating […]
December 16, 2013
yesterday’s Gannet papers ran a special section on school choice focusing on NJ’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. Contributers were NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer; Paul […]
December 16, 2013
The NJ Assembly Education Committee is hearing testimony today from DOE staffers about “wasteful spending” in NJ’s industry of private special education schools, which are […]
December 16, 2013
Four charter organizations have just been approved by the NJ Department of Education to open new schools in September. According to NJ Spotlight, the four […]
December 15, 2013
today’s Asbury Park Press editorial debate on the virtues (or not) of NJ’s public school choice program that allows students to cross district boundaries upon […]
December 15, 2013
Are NJ schools successfully combating acts of harassment, intimidation, and bullying? The DOE just released its new database, reports NJ Spotlight: “Tellingly, after a first […]