December 7, 2012
Dana Goldstein has a great piece up about the Congressional Republican caucus’s inexplicably stupid blocking of the U.S.’s adoption of the U.N. Convention on the […]
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November 21, 2012
A common complaint about charter schools is that they tend to enroll fewer kids with disabilities than traditional public schools. A new study out on […]
October 8, 2012
There’s an item from Gov. Romney’s education agenda that hasn’t gotten enough notice, and it’s not his seesaw on whether he’s going to cut education […]
October 2, 2012
EdWeek’s special education blog is reporting that the U.S. Department of Education has finished its investigation of the East Orange Public Schools District and determined […]
September 27, 2012
My WHYY Newsworks post this week looks at New Jersey’s high costs associated with special education, specifically our habit of sending children with disabilities to […]
September 24, 2012
Check out my column today at NJ Spotlight, which reviews the Christie Administration’s education agenda in light of the three reports (the last one just […]
September 6, 2012
Yesterday the Christie Administration released the long-awaited the Education Transformation Task Force report. As NJ Spotlight reports, the 239-page report “was a gargantuan effort, with […]
July 17, 2012
Education Law Center has filed an OPRA request for “detailed documentation about the Lakewood school district’s plan to reconfigure school grade assignments and for academic […]
June 5, 2012
Via Dr. Miriam Kurtzig Freedman in the University of Chicago Law Review (hat tip Joanne Jacobs): It is time to end special education as we […]
May 31, 2012
A parent of a child on the autistic spectrum responds to the U.S. DOE’s plans to “help close the achievement gap for students with disabilities […]
May 24, 2012
The big education story today is Mitt Romney’s “education platform,” which was unveiled, curiously, during a speech to the Latino Coalition (where he didn’t mention […]
May 3, 2012
Today’s story on Lakewood Public Schools in the Asbury Park Press concerns a blind and deaf minority student with serious developmental delays named Sha’Quan Peace-Doldren. […]