Categories: CamdenNewark

New NJ Spotlight Column: Ongoing Battles in NJ over Camden, Newark, PARCC Testing, and School Funding

It starts here:

New Jersey’s education reform landscape has always been rocky, and 2014 was no exception, pitted with growing resistance towards new accountability metrics, dissension about school choice, and school-funding challenges. 

Will 2015 yield a smooth ride or more parkway potholes? Here are four questions worth asking as we head into a new year.

Read the rest here.

Laura Waters

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