September 12, 2014
On Wednesday I had a column in NJ Spotlight on the escalating rhetoric among anti-charter activists who make specious allegations that charter school operators and […]
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September 10, 2014
In 1967’s classic film, “The Graduate,” young Benjamin (the graduate of the title) is given some advice by a friend of his father’s who wants […]
September 4, 2014
It starts here: As children and district staff head back to school this week, policy-makers and educators continue to wrangle over a host of educational, […]
June 20, 2014
In 1990, Chief Justice Robert Wilentz issued the Abbott II decision, one in a series of rulings that inform NJ’s school funding structure. The ruling […]
May 6, 2014
NJ Education Commissioner David Hespe told the state Assembly Budget Committee that he “doesn’t know” if Gov. Christie will cut education funding to trim the […]
May 2, 2014
Today’s WHYY Newsworks column: New Jersey’s mayoral elections are in two weeks and the eyes of the education community are focused on Newark’s contentious race […]
May 1, 2014
Both NJ Spotlight and the Star Ledger cover the discrepancies between Gov. Christie’s actual school district state aid, per his budget, and state aid calculated […]
April 29, 2014
Yesterday NJ Spotlight reported on the sorry fiscal condition of Lakewood Public Schools (Ocean County). On Friday Commissioner David Hespe announced that the State would […]
April 28, 2014
I covered Saturday’s mayoral forum for WHYY Newsworks: At the mayoral forum Saturday morning “Setting Trenton’s Education Agenda,” sponsored by the Citizens Campaign at the […]
April 4, 2014
Ryan Hill, founder of TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, responds to yesterday’s student protest against Cami Anderson’s One Newark plan: “There is a degree to […]
April 3, 2014
Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard announced last night that the district would lay off 400 staff members in order to close a $75 million budget shortfall. […]
March 28, 2014
Mayor Dave Fried of Robbinsville (Mercer County) has nothing good to say about NJ’s system of dividing up state aid to schools, especially when wealthy […]