Sunday Leftovers
Laura Waters
June 5, 2016
To the surprise of many, New Jersey Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto chose a little-known assemblywoman, Marlene Caride, to take over Patrick Diegnan’s slot as Chair of
QOD: Ravitch is “Chief Propagandist for Corporate Unionism”; Bonus: Find Out How She Maintains Her Prodigious Blogging Output
Laura Waters
June 2, 2016
From “Time for Sanders, or Diane Ravitch, to Pack It In? Part 1” by Jim Horn at Schools Matter (h/t Mike Antonucci) Since 2010, [Diane] Ravitch
Paterson Ex-School Board Member Needs a Little Education on PARCC
Laura Waters
June 2, 2016
PolitickerNJ is featuring an editorial today from former Paterson School Board member Corey Teague. He must be recently “former” because an article in the Star-Ledger describes
Hoboken’s Free Abbott Preschool Students are “Lily White”
Laura Waters
June 1, 2016
Sometimes I think I’m too hard (see here and here) on New Jersey’s Education Law Center, that noble organization that bills itself as “one of
Assemblyman Ciattarelli: Let’s “De-Abbottize” School Districts That Receive Way Too Much State Aid
Laura Waters
June 1, 2016
Want to talk about inequality? Social and economic justice? The one percent? How about owners of $6.5 million homes sending their kids to free Pre-K
QOD: Principal of Philadelphia High School Explains the LIFO Albatross & Gov. Wolf’s Choice of Unions Over Kids
Laura Waters
May 31, 2016
Sharif El-Mekki, principal of Shoemaker Middle and High School in Philadelphia, considers the impact of PA Governor Wolf’s veto of House Bill 805, which would
Christie Charter School Speech Round-Up
Laura Waters
May 27, 2016
Yesterday Gov. Chris Christie gave the keynote at the New Jersey Charter School Association Conference in Atlantic City. (I live-tweeted it if you want to
QOD (and a few notes): PARCC Points Out the “Gross Inequality of Our State’s Public Education System”
Laura Waters
May 27, 2016
Irwin Stoolmacher, a guest columnist today at the Star-Ledger and a resident of West Windsor-Plainsboro, one of N.J.’s wealthy suburban districts, reports that he received
Shame on Long Island’s “Wall of Shame” : Can We Just Stop with the Bullying?
Laura Waters
May 25, 2016
Michael Goot in the upstate New York Post Star reports on a website called the Wall of Shame that currently highlights fifteen school principals and superintendents,
Re: Mayor de Blasio’s Control of NYC Schools: This is Personal
Laura Waters
May 24, 2016
At The 74, Jenny Sedlis takes a cogent look at the current battle over mayoral control of New York City’s public schools as Mayor Bill