New WHYY Post: Why Do Teacher Unions Care About Cory Booker’s Successor?

Did you hear about last Monday's "National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education?" Maybe not. Despite a…

13 years ago

Three Camden High School Seniors Deemed “College Ready” by College Board

Just out from Associated Press:The new school superintendent in Camden says it was a "kick-in-the-stomach moment" when he learned that…

13 years ago

NJ DOE Uncountable at Special Education Accountability Hearing

Yesterday the Assembly Education Committee heard testimony from the state auditor and New Jersey School Boards Association about the lack…

13 years ago

Education isn’t the only thing rotten at Camden High

There's been tons of coverage of the decrepit conditions at Trenton Central High School, including this from the Huffington Post,…

13 years ago

In case you missed it,

yesterday's Gannet papers ran a special section on school choice focusing on NJ's Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. Contributers were…

13 years ago

NJ Assembly Hears About “Wasteful Spending” on Special Education

The NJ Assembly Education Committee is hearing testimony today from DOE staffers about “wasteful spending” in NJ’s industry of private…

13 years ago

Four New Charter Schools Approved for Jersey

Four  charter organizations have just been approved by the NJ Department of Education to open new schools in September. According…

13 years ago

Don’t miss…

today's Asbury Park Press editorial debate on the virtues (or not) of NJ's public school choice program that allows students…

13 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

Are NJ schools successfully combating acts of harassment, intimidation, and bullying? The DOE just released its new database, reports NJ…

13 years ago

QOD: on the new “punching bag” in ed policy, otherwise known as the “Common Core”

The Common Core, writes Evan Stone, former elementary teacher and founder of Educators for Excellence, is "not a curriculum" and…

13 years ago