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To the surprise of many,  New Jersey Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto chose a little-known assemblywoman, Marlene Caride, to take over Patrick…

8 years ago

QOD: Ravitch is “Chief Propagandist for Corporate Unionism”; Bonus: Find Out How She Maintains Her Prodigious Blogging Output

From "Time for Sanders, or Diane Ravitch, to Pack It In? Part 1" by Jim Horn at Schools Matter (h/t…

8 years ago

Paterson Ex-School Board Member Needs a Little Education on PARCC

PolitickerNJ is featuring an editorial today from former Paterson School Board member Corey Teague. He must be recently “former” because…

8 years ago

Hoboken’s Free Abbott Preschool Students are “Lily White”

Sometimes I think I'm too hard (see here and here) on New Jersey's Education Law Center, that noble organization that…

8 years ago

Assemblyman Ciattarelli: Let’s “De-Abbottize” School Districts That Receive Way Too Much State Aid

Want to talk about inequality? Social and economic justice? The one percent? How about owners of $6.5 million homes sending…

8 years ago

QOD: Principal of Philadelphia High School Explains the LIFO Albatross & Gov. Wolf’s Choice of Unions Over Kids

Sharif El-Mekki, principal of Shoemaker Middle and High School in Philadelphia, considers the impact of PA Governor Wolf's veto of…

8 years ago

Christie Charter School Speech Round-Up

Yesterday Gov. Chris Christie gave the keynote at the New Jersey Charter School Association Conference in Atlantic City. (I live-tweeted…

8 years ago

QOD (and a few notes): PARCC Points Out the “Gross Inequality of Our State’s Public Education System”

Irwin Stoolmacher, a guest columnist today at the Star-Ledger and a resident of West Windsor-Plainsboro, one of N.J.’s wealthy suburban…

8 years ago

Shame on Long Island’s “Wall of Shame” : Can We Just Stop with the Bullying?

Michael Goot in the upstate New York Post Star reports on a website called the Wall of Shame that currently highlights…

8 years ago

Re: Mayor de Blasio’s Control of NYC Schools: This is Personal

At The 74, Jenny Sedlis  takes a cogent look at the current battle over mayoral control of New York City’s…

8 years ago