Nina Rees in the Wall Street Journal on “the union war on charter school philanthropists”: Charter schools are also closing achievement gaps. At Success Academy schools
I’m at #ewa (Education Writers Association convention) this week in Boston. Blogging will be light. Feel like chatting? Give me a holler. The New York
In “Opt Out: An Examination of Issues,” a peer-reviewed paper that is part of ETS’s Research Report Series, Randy E. Bennett analyzes “early press accounts”
From “Randi Weingarten’s Ugly Endorsement and the War Against Poor Students:” The facts about kids in the country’s public schools are as hard as they
NJ Spotlight reports that the quality of New Jersey’s hospitals, once rated 5th in the country, dropped to 22nd place after a non-profit watchdog group
Camden City’s Board of Education will meet at 5:30 today in public session for local residents to hear the latest news and share their views.
From the new report Better Options, Better Futures: Eight Years of the Newark Charter School Fund: Our stern loyalty toward our children necessitates that we
As the Star-Ledger notes in today’s editorial, last week’s Newark School Advisory Board election was a game-changer, with historically sparse turn-outs — typically about 7%
Last week I looked at the how differences in state-level leadership, teacher unions, and parent advocacy may have affected New York and New Jersey’s “opt-out
For many years Newark school board elections were won by power brokers, not parents. For example, last year PolitickerNJ described how Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s