April 29, 2020
On Monday I wrote about Paterson Public Schools’ poor implementation of home instruction during this pandemic, hindered largely by the lack of one-on-one devices for […]
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April 17, 2020
We’re about 5 weeks into our coronavirus lock-down in New Jersey, about a month since much of America has embarked on a national experiment of […]
March 30, 2020
I wrote last week about Princeton Regional Public Schools’ high expectations for students during this pandemic in comparison to the low expectations for students who […]
March 25, 2020
On Monday I looked at the stark disparities in the quality of online instruction offered to children during the COVID-19 school closures, comparing Princeton Regional […]
March 23, 2020
I live right off Route 206, a mostly two-lane road that begins in the Pinelands of southern New Jersey, winds 130 miles north to Stokes […]
November 27, 2019
Politico reports today that Elizabeth Warren’s support among Democratic and left-leaning Independent primary voters “plunged 50 percent over the past month, according to a new […]
January 15, 2019
Less than two weeks ago a local paper reported that Trenton public schools students feel unsafe and uneducated. At about the same time an appellate court […]
January 3, 2019
An article in Tuesday’s Trentonian recounts interviews with Trenton Central High School students, almost all Black, Hispanic, and poor, who are stuck in a district […]
August 16, 2018
“We in Trenton are adamantly opposed to charter school expansion,” Trenton Superintendent Dr. Fred McDowell said Wednesday at a community meeting on the subject. “We […]
May 14, 2018
Donna Siminski is Director of Policy and Advocacy for the New Jersey Charter School Association with a focus on the policy issues impacting the the […]
April 10, 2018
The State of New Jersey is building a new school for Trenton Central High students and staff at the cost of $117 million because Trenton […]
April 5, 2018
State unions are typically united. When the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) speaks, it speaks for all of its local bargaining units. But a recent […]