Guest Post:The Taxpayer-Funded One-Percenters of NJEA

At an August 8, 2016, protest in Trenton organized by New Jersey’s largest teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association…

10 years ago

White Suburban Parents Protest Educational Rights of Black Urban Parents

Look at this picture. What do you see? A group of (almost all) white suburban people in front of the…

10 years ago

NJEA Front Office Staff Pensions Are Secure. Regular Teachers? Not so Much.

The New Jersey Teachers Pension and Annuity Fund (TPAF) will be drained dry on June 30th, 2027, about eleven and…

10 years ago

Newark Employs More Ineffective Teachers Than Any Other District in New Jersey

On a related note, the Partnership for Educational Justice just released a press release on the status of a motion,…

10 years ago

New Jersey’s Retreat from Teacher Effectiveness Ratings; Out With the New, In With the Old

Charlotte Danielson, the doyenne of teacher evaluations, says that when schools use her highly-regarded rubric to gauge teacher effectiveness, the…

10 years ago

Anticipated Confrontation at Tonight’s Camden School Board Meeting Ignores Student and Teacher Needs

"All Camden High alumni should be proud of what is taking place here. It's for our children. It's not about…

10 years ago

Newsflash: Bruce Baker Analyzes Charter School Expansion and I’m Impressed

I am typically a fierce critic of Professor Bruce Baker but this week I find myself in the delightful position…

10 years ago

How Hard Is it To Dismiss Ineffective Teachers in Newark?

Analysts at the Fordham Foundation created a rubric for gauging the difficulty of firing ineffective teachers based on these three…

10 years ago

Latino Parent Voices Are Ignored in Red Bank as NJEA Muffles Expansion Plans

Leaders of the New Jersey Education Association often profess disdain for public charter schools. But how far will they go…

10 years ago

N.J. Governor-to-Be Phil Murphy Proposes Insolvable/Insolvent Math Problem to NJEA Members

Accept my apology, dear readers, for forgoing my annual rant about the NJEA Convention, which takes place in Atlantic City…

10 years ago