October 13, 2013
NJ Spotlight analyzes Cory Booker’s “enigmatic role” in Newark Public Schools as he fields harsh criticism from his GOP opponent Steve Lonegan. Speaking of Lonegan, […]
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October 11, 2013
A new Rutgers University report on so-called apartheid schools in New Jersey says that 26 percent of black students and 13 percent of Latino students […]
October 10, 2013
In my column today at WHYY Newsworks, I look at NJ’s tightening senatorial race between Cory Booker and Steve Lonegan, particularly Booker’s “triangulation” of his […]
October 9, 2013
Here’s some assessments from local media: John Mooney of NJ Spotlight considers the candidates’ responses to the one education question of the debate: ““If New […]
October 7, 2013
In today’s Wall St. Journal, Lisa Fleisher lists the ways that Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson would have used a $30 million Race to the Top […]
October 7, 2013
After a long delay, the DOE has released the names of districts that may now accept public school students from outside district boundaries. The districts […]
October 6, 2013
“Paying teachers on the basis of master’s degrees is equivalent to paying them based on hair color,” said Thomas J. Kane, an economist at the […]
October 3, 2013
I wrote today at WHYY on Lakewood Public Schools’ fiscal insolvency, a problem largely due the cost of busing 25,000 private day school students to […]
October 3, 2013
Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, under investigation by the FBI for extortion as well as other offenses, has replaced a member of the Trenton Board of […]
October 3, 2013
My column today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at private school choice run amok in Lakewood, NJ: What happens when unregulated special interests control public budget […]
October 1, 2013
One of the common complaints about charter schools is that they discriminate against kids with disabilities, “creaming off” non-disabled kids from applicants in order to […]
September 30, 2013
From Politico: A shutdown of the federal government now seems all but certain if Congress doesn’t come to an 11th-hour agreement today. And it will […]