A Response to a Report of Andrew Cuomo’s Demise

On Saturday Fred LeBrun of the Times-Union, Albany’s daily paper wrote an obituary for Andrew Cuomo’s career. According to LeBrun,…

11 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

Edgewater Public Schools' administrators are pleased with the implementation and results of PARCC testing: "We barely had any opt-outs and…

11 years ago

Anti-Testing Movement Privileges Rich Students over Poor Students

It’s like New Jersey is two separate countries, at least as I read my local papers yesterday. In the Trenton…

11 years ago

Camden Releases PARCC Scores and District Accountability Ratings

At Tuesday night’s Camden School Board meeting, Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard and Deputy Superintendent Katrina McCombs released school-by-school PARCC scores. The…

11 years ago

A Teachable Moment for Andrew Cuomo: Lead the State, Not Just the Loud

Poor Andrew Cuomo: he just can’t get it right. First he signed the Education Transformation Act of 2015 that, in…

11 years ago

When Local Control Runs Amok: A Case Study of Lakewood, NJ and East Ramapo, NY

New Jersey has Lakewood and New York has East Ramapo, two cities where the vast majority of residents are Jewish…

11 years ago

Hoboken Charter School Approved by State To Give Preference to Low-Income Families

In a move that will indubitably spark dread into the anti-charter school brigade, HoLa Dual Language Charter School in Hoboken,…

11 years ago

QOD: Newark School Board Member: Low Income Parents Drive Expansion of Charter Schools

Rashon K. Hasan, member of the Newark Board of Education, has a guest column at Education Post that decries the…

11 years ago

Newsflash: de Blasio and Farina Close Three Brooklyn Schools that No One Wants to Attend

Big news! In a dramatic shift from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Farina's indefatigable devotion…

11 years ago

Trenton Public Schools Administrators Crow at Graduation Rates; Meanwhile, 0% of Students Are Proficient in Algebra II

What’s a high school diploma worth?That question underlies much of the current disputes about higher standards for schoolchildren.Historically we’ve flung…

11 years ago