NJEA as a Fish?
Laura Waters
April 4, 2017
This image above is from NJEA’s facebook page. Predatory, anyone? Not sure what to make of it: NJEA eviscerating charter schools through a moratorium? NJEA
Here’s What’s Wrong With NJEA’s Strategy To Unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney
Laura Waters
March 30, 2017
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week that the New Jersey Education Association just launched a full-scale attack against long-time Democratic leader and Senate President Steve
This is Why A Rich Town Like Princeton Needs a Charter School
Laura Waters
March 28, 2017
(This is a guest post by Princeton Resident Liz Winslow) The following are remarks I’ve prepared for a Princeton Board of Education budget meeting this
Jonah and the Whale
Laura Waters
March 22, 2017
Call me Ishmael. Excuse the melodrama but right now my husband and I feel like we’re about to embark on a dark, god-less, soul-crushing journey.
Hey, Princeton and Save Our Schools-NJ: If You’re So Worried About Princeton Charter’s Impact on Segregation, Here’s a Suggestion
Laura Waters
March 16, 2017
Every week I have a piano lesson in Princeton and so I drive six miles down Route 206 from my home in Lawrence, located smack
This Is How My Daughter Celebrated International Women’s Day
Laura Waters
March 10, 2017
Forgive my self-indulgence on this snowy Friday. My younger daughter Emily is a second-year chemistry and physics teacher at City On A Hill Charter School on
Why Do My Neighbors Demonize the Only Public School — Princeton Charter — Where My Special Needs Son Has Thrived?
Laura Waters
March 6, 2017
This is a guest post by Liz Winslow Schartman, a Princeton, New Jersey resident and parent of three children, two of whom have special needs.
“We Will Live By Choice and Not By Chance!”
Laura Waters
March 1, 2017
This credo — “we will live by choice and not by chance” echoed through Trenton’s Masonic Hall on Monday morning as two hundred charter school
Save Our Schools-NJ Leaders In a Juvenile State of Mind
Laura Waters
February 24, 2017
Reasonable people can disagree about whether New Jersey should authorize new public charter schools solely in historically-underserved districts or whether families in all towns should
Is It Time to Show A Little Love For Poor Betsy DeVos?
Laura Waters
February 22, 2017
It’s been a Conservative/Tea Party talking point for a while now: get rid of the U.S. Department of Education and.(cuing Pink Floyd here) leave them