Sunday Leftovers

ICYMI, here's my Spotlight column, which offers some suggestions on how we can move past the Age of Abbott and…

11 years ago

Inequity in Lakewood: Spotlight on Special Education for Jewish Students

New York has East Ramapo and New Jersey has Lakewood: school districts with huge numbers of Orthodox Jewish families who…

11 years ago

Chicago Charter Schools in Session, Not Losing Valuable Learning Time as Adults Play Politics

Today, appropriately on April Fools' Day,  members of the Chicago Teachers Union walked out on their 300,000 students. The following…

11 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: NJ’s School Funding Formula and Abbott Designations Are Fossilized: Time to Move On

It starts here:In 1991, two German hikers found a frozen body in the Otzal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border. “Otzi,”…

11 years ago

Here’s NJEA’s Finance Report (Including Vince Giordano’s Base Salary of $492K)

From Mike Antonucci's EIA:The New Jersey Education Association had a negative net worth, primarily due to pension and health care…

11 years ago

How Far Will Teacher Union Leaders Go to Undermine Standardized Testing?

On Monday night South Brunswick parents were invited to an event called “The PARCC and Your Rights as Parents.” online…

11 years ago

QOD: A Newark Charter School Leader Describes His Students’ Special Needs and Calls for Collaboration, Not Combativeness

Misha Simmons, online pharmacy https://peachtreeallergyclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/elavil.html no prescription Executive Director of University Heights Charter School (UHCS) in Newark, describes his student…

11 years ago

In Which I Explain One of the Reasons I Do What I Do

It starts here:Here’s Donald Trump, America’s likely Republican presidential nominee, describing his vision of the federal role in public education:I’m…

11 years ago

Parsing Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s Education Commentary in his State of the City Speech

Earlier this month  Newark Mayor Ras Baraka gave his "State of the City" speech and devoted a long section to…

11 years ago

QOD: NYS Regents Chancellor off to an “Unprofessional Start”

From the Buffalo News online pharmacy buy arava online no prescription pharmacy ;It doesn’t augur well for excellence when the…

11 years ago