Guest Post: Hoboken Voters Should Elect School Board Members Who Respect Parent Choice

Dear Friends,I’m writing to you, not in my capacity as President of the Board of Trustees of HoLa (Hoboken Dual…

10 years ago

Newark Parents Fight New Jersey’s Unjust and Immoral Teacher Lay-Off Law

The son of Newark mother Noemi Vazquez is one of 10 plaintiffs in a lawsuit called HG v. Harrington that…

10 years ago

Here’s Why Charter Schools Aren’t “Laboratories of Innovation”

John Holland Charter School in Paterson just announced its most recent PARCC scores for 6th graders in language arts:  68.4%…

10 years ago

QOD: Chris Cerf Goes to Washington

On Wednesday Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in which he reflected on the…

10 years ago

Lauren Wells Has it Wrong: Parent Choice IS Collective Power

In an editorial in NJ Spotlight this week, Lauren Wells, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s former chief education officer, praises the…

10 years ago

An Apology to Phil Murphy, N.J’s Next Governor, Who Boldly Voted Against the NAACP Charter School Moratorium

On Saturday the NAACP voted for a resolution urging an indefinite moratorium on the expansion of charter schools. This was…

10 years ago

QOD: Tom Moran asks, “Why is Phil Murphy Hostile to Charter Schools?” Answer: NJEA

Riffing off my piece earlier this week (hey, Tom, how about some attribution?) the editor of the Star Ledger notes…

10 years ago

Camden Parents “Thrilled” By Mastery Charter School’s New Building. “This is the Most Hopeful We’ve Ever Been About Camden.”

On Tuesday Mastery Schools of Camden, a partnership with the Camden School District serving nearly 1,600 Camden families in five…

10 years ago

Meet NJ’s Next Governor Who Will Vote For a National Charter School Moratorium on Saturday

Allow me to take a wild guess: New Jersey’s newly-anointed next governor Phil Murphy has never stepped foot in a…

10 years ago

Dissecting the Opt-Out Bubble: A Thorough Analysis

The Consortium for Policy Research in Education has just released a working paper called “The Bubble Bursts: The 2015 Opt-Out…

10 years ago