Today, appropriately on April Fools’ Day, members of the Chicago Teachers Union walked out on their 300,000 students. The following is a press release from
It starts here: In 1991, two German hikers found a frozen body in the Otzal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border. “Otzi,” as he’s fondly called,
From Mike Antonucci’s EIA: The New Jersey Education Association had a negative net worth, primarily due to pension and health care liabilities owed to its
On Monday night South Brunswick parents were invited to an event called “The PARCC and Your Rights as Parents.” Free coffee and pastries, a night
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 not cutting services,
From the Buffalo News; It doesn’t augur well for excellence when the new chancellor of the state Board of Regents all but encourages parents to
At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students did not sit for the
Education Cities and Great Schools have created a new tool that quantifies trends in achievement gaps in each state and in some cities. The tool
New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, queen of the opt-out movement in New York State and heroine to teacher union leaders, is reaping widespread criticism for
The New York Times’ lede on a story about Montclair Public Schools reveals the writer’s misunderstanding of the word “progressive” : Many battles have been fought