September 3, 2013
From the Asbury Park Press: New Jersey’s largest teacher’s union spent $37 million from 1999 through 2012 on lobbying and campaign expenditures. That sum put […]
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August 30, 2013
Yesterday I wondered if Allison Benedikt’s article, “If You Send Your Child to Private School You are a Bad Person,” was intended as some sort […]
August 30, 2013
That’s the views of luminaries such as Diane Ravitch and Bob Braun. In my column today at WHYY’s Newsworks I consider the question. Last week […]
August 29, 2013
There’s a problem in paradise. Okay, maybe not, but there’s at least an inconvenient delay at the NJ’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, which allows […]
August 29, 2013
From the Wall Street Journal: “This is the huge fulcrum moment for many of the reforms,” said Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at […]
August 29, 2013
Is Allison Benedikt’s new piece in Slate, “If You Send Your Child to Private School You are a Bad Person,” intended as a tongue-in-cheek send-up […]
August 26, 2013
Lisa Fleisher in the Wall Street Journal: Newark, in a first for a large New Jersey public-school system, has given out bonuses of up to […]
August 25, 2013
In case you missed it, here’s my WHYY post this week on the reignited fireworks between Christie and NJEA. NJ School Boards Association is thrilled […]
August 23, 2013
My new post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at the reemergence this past week of enmity between Chris Christie and NJEA, NJ’s primary teacher union. […]
August 21, 2013
At a press conference today Gov. Christie announced his pick for the new superintendent of Camden Public Schools, Paymon Rouhanifard. After the State Board of […]
August 21, 2013
TRENTON (The Borowitz Report)—New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie withdrew from consideration as a Presidential candidate today after becoming embroiled in what a leading Republican strategist […]
August 21, 2013
StudentsFirst’s Ashley DeMauro in Philadelphia Public Schools Notebook reflects on the School Reform Commission’s recent decision to eliminate seniority-based lay-offs in the cash-starved districts. Instead, […]