New Camden Initiative: Simplifying School Enrollment for Parents

Camden Public Schools just announced that Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard is launching a “neighborhood-by-neighborhood listening tour to focus on the challenges…

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Education Law Center Files Complaint about DOE Bureaucracy; Can We Talk About Kids?

The members of New Jersey’s “review” of the Common Core State Standards are faced with a thankless task: fussing over…

11 years ago

QOD: A Parent of Children with Special Needs Rebuts Farina and de Blasio’s Claims about Charter Selectivity

A Bronx parent of three kids with special needs buy actos online buy actos online no prescription rebuts NYC Schools…

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New NJ Spotlight column: Moving Beyond Good v. Evil in Newark School Reform Debate

It starts here:Ras Baraka hasn’t just cooled the campaign rhetoric, he’s proven that he knows the value of eclectic and…

11 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

The Star-Ledger reports on DOE changes to high school graduation testing requirements:New Jersey's new class of high school freshmen won't have to…

11 years ago

Where Did All That Facebook Money Go in Newark?

The Star-Ledger online pharmacy buy topamax online cheap pharmacy asks, “where did that $200 million to Newark Public Schools go?”…

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Bellwether “Briefing Book”: By 2035, Charter Schools will Educate 20-40% of all American Public School Students

Bellwether has just issued a “briefing book” called “The State of the Charter School Movement” which “reviews the current state…

11 years ago

The Retention Rate for Teach for America alumni? Higher than you Think.

From TFA's new analysis:How long do most Teach For America corps members teach?  online pharmacy buy zovirax without prescription with…

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QOD: How Committed is Chris Cerf to Local Control in Newark?

Cerf told the school board and members of the public at the meeting that he was "unalterably, authentically, and completely…

11 years ago

Must-Read from Mickelson on the Fundamentalist Traits of “Teacher Unionists” (with apologies to Woody Guthrie)

Do you ever read a piece and think, “I wish I’d written that?” Lynnel Mickelson, who describes herself as a…

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