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Chicago Charter Schools in Session, Not Losing Valuable Learning Time as Adults Play Politics

Today, appropriately on April Fools' Day,  members of the Chicago Teachers Union walked out on their 300,000 students. The following…

9 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: NJ’s School Funding Formula and Abbott Designations Are Fossilized: Time to Move On

It starts here:In 1991, two German hikers found a frozen body in the Otzal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border. “Otzi,”…

9 years ago

Here’s NJEA’s Finance Report (Including Vince Giordano’s Base Salary of $492K)

From Mike Antonucci's EIA:The New Jersey Education Association had a negative net worth, primarily due to pension and health care…

9 years ago

How Far Will Teacher Union Leaders Go to Undermine Standardized Testing?

On Monday night South Brunswick parents were invited to an event called “The PARCC and Your Rights as Parents.” Free…

9 years ago

In Which I Explain One of the Reasons I Do What I Do

It starts here:Here’s Donald Trump, America’s likely Republican presidential nominee, describing his vision of the federal role in public education:I’m…

9 years ago

QOD: NYS Regents Chancellor off to an “Unprofessional Start”

From the Buffalo News;It doesn’t augur well for excellence when the new chancellor of the state Board of Regents all…

9 years ago

Is Refusing Tests Just Like Fighting for Abolition and Marriage Equality?

At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students…

9 years ago

New Jersey has “Massive Achievement Gap” While New York’s is Only “Large,” via EEI Index

Education Cities and Great Schools have created a new tool that quantifies trends in achievement gaps in each state and…

9 years ago

New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa Suggests Poverty is Destiny; Has She Gone Too Far?

New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, queen of the opt-out movement in New York State and heroine to teacher union leaders,…

9 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

The New York Times' lede on a story about Montclair Public Schools reveals the writer's misunderstanding of the word "progressive" :Many…

9 years ago