April 10, 2013
Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, winner of the Star-Ledger’s Knucklehead of the Year Award, is canning the president of the school board. From the Trenton Times: […]
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January 7, 2013
The Star-Ledger Editorial Board has a sharply-edged rebuke to the Christie Administration’s failure to rebuild crumbling schools in cities like Trenton. This scolding was triggered […]
November 14, 2012
Today’s Trenton Times reports on a recent Trenton School Board meeting at which board members puzzled over seemingly conflicting test scores: high school students performed […]
September 13, 2012
Trenton School Board President Rev. Toby Sanders has announced that the district has suspended Ralphiel Mack, school counselor and head football coach, following his arrest […]
September 11, 2012
Local papers are ablaze with the arrest of Trenton Mayor Tony Mack and his brother Ralphiel Mack, who are charged with extortion of bribes, including […]
June 7, 2012
According to today’s Times of Trenton, the Facility Advisory Board has plans to renovate Trenton Central High School which, according to a member of the […]
May 24, 2012
From my post today at WHYY Newsworks,”What’s More Important: Local Control or Student Outcomes?” In New Jersey, nothing gets our blood boiling faster than the […]
May 23, 2012
Education Law Center, standard bearer for poor minority students in New Jersey, issued a press release yesterday charging that Gov. Christie and Ed. Comm. Cerf, […]
May 17, 2012
When school boards choose superintendents there’s typically consensus among members. Lengthy sifting of resumes, multiple interviews, collaboration, and a shared vision of educational needs usually […]
May 2, 2012
NJ School Boards Association has a cogent explanation of the new way NJ is calculating graduation rates: Previously, the graduation rate for a given year […]
March 16, 2012
From today’s Trentonian: Welcome to Emily Fisher Charter School, where teachers attempt to offer lifelines to many students who arrive here with baggage; a place […]
January 13, 2012
Yesterday Gov. Christie signed the Urban Hope Act, which allows non-profits to build, manage, and operate up to four “renaissance” schools in three districts: Camden, […]