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NJEA as a Fish?

This image above is from NJEA's facebook page. Predatory, anyone? Not sure what to make of it:  NJEA  eviscerating charter…

8 years ago

Here’s What’s Wrong With NJEA’s Strategy To Unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week that the New Jersey Education Association just launched a full-scale attack against long-time Democratic…

8 years ago

This is Why A Rich Town Like Princeton Needs a Charter School

(This is a guest post by Princeton Resident Liz Winslow)The following are remarks I’ve prepared for a Princeton Board of…

8 years ago

Jonah and the Whale

Call me Ishmael. Excuse the melodrama but right now my husband and I feel like we’re about to embark on…

8 years ago

Hey, Princeton and Save Our Schools-NJ: If You’re So Worried About Princeton Charter’s Impact on Segregation, Here’s a Suggestion

Every week I have a piano lesson in Princeton and so I drive six miles down Route 206 from my…

8 years ago

This Is How My Daughter Celebrated International Women’s Day

Forgive my self-indulgence on this snowy Friday. My younger daughter Emily is a second-year chemistry and physics teacher at City…

8 years ago

Why Do My Neighbors Demonize the Only Public School — Princeton Charter — Where My Special Needs Son Has Thrived?

This is a guest post by Liz Winslow Schartman, a Princeton, New Jersey resident and parent of three children, two…

8 years ago

“We Will Live By Choice and Not By Chance!”

This credo -- "we will live by choice and not by chance"  echoed through Trenton’s Masonic Hall  on Monday morning…

8 years ago

Save Our Schools-NJ Leaders In a Juvenile State of Mind

Reasonable people can disagree about whether New Jersey should authorize new public charter schools solely in historically-underserved districts or whether…

8 years ago

Is It Time to Show A Little Love For Poor Betsy DeVos?

It’s been a Conservative/Tea Party talking point for a while now: get rid of the U.S. Department of Education and.(cuing…

8 years ago