U.S. Senator Cory Booker on Newark’s Educational Transformation and “Real School Choice”

Last month Sen. Booker gave a speech at the American Federation for Children annual meeting in D.C. Here's an excerpt,…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

(Special school funding edition, plus extra long because I was in Chicago at Education Post's Blogging Summit for a few…

10 years ago

Brooklyn Schools, Heeding Opt-Out Advocates Advice, Lose Honor and Money

Here's the "BOTTOM LINE" from the-anti-accountability group New York State Allies for Public Education:A school district does NOT lose funding…

10 years ago

Correcting the Record: Gov. Cuomo Mixes Up NYS Science Standards with Common Core

Here's a statement from the Collaborative for Student Success, which gently explains to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, erstwhile supporter of educational…

10 years ago

QOD: N.J. Senate President Sweeney: I Support Standardized Tests and “See Value” in Charter Schools

From Politico:State Senate President Stephen Sweeney said he supported standardized tests and questioned the “hysteria” surrounding PARCC, New Jersey’s latest…

10 years ago

Christie Blames the N.J. Superintendent Cap on Teacher Unions and Says He’ll Think About it Another Day

Back in 2010 N.J. Governor Chris Christie "pretty much unilaterally,"reports today's N.J. Spotlight,  imposed a salary cap on school superintendents:…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

To the surprise of many,  New Jersey Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto chose a little-known assemblywoman, Marlene Caride, to take over Patrick…

10 years ago

QOD: Ravitch is “Chief Propagandist for Corporate Unionism”; Bonus: Find Out How She Maintains Her Prodigious Blogging Output

From "Time for Sanders, or Diane Ravitch, to Pack It In? Part 1" by Jim Horn at Schools Matter (h/t…

10 years ago

Paterson Ex-School Board Member Needs a Little Education on PARCC

PolitickerNJ is featuring an editorial today from former Paterson School Board member Corey Teague. He must be recently “former” because…

10 years ago

Hoboken’s Free Abbott Preschool Students are “Lily White”

Sometimes I think I'm too hard (see here and here) on New Jersey's Education Law Center, that noble organization that…

10 years ago