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Follow the Money: A Guest Post from a Lakewood Resident

Once again the Lakewood Public Schools has been bailed out of their financial hole. This has become a rite of…

7 years ago

What Does the New Camden Teacher Union President Think About Superintendent Rouhanifard? Hold Onto Your Hat!

Keith Benson, newly-elected President of the Camden Education Association, must be terrified. Over the last five years Camden public schoolchildren…

7 years ago

Second Item: Pro-Lakewood Guest Post

I've been tough on Lakewood this week. And so, in the interest of equal time, here is a guest post…

7 years ago

Two Other Lakewood-Related Items

Number one: the Star-Ledger reports that Tobree Mostel, the supervisor of the district's office of Chapter 192 and 193 funding  (the…

7 years ago

“Culture of Fear” in Lakewood Cheats Children of Color

The New Jersey Department of Education announced last week that it will give Lakewood Public Schools an “advance” of $8.5…

7 years ago

Do All Schools Rise? They Do In Newark!

On Thursday I attended College Signing Day at North Star, one of Newark’s best public charter schools. But someone beat…

7 years ago

Lakewood Public Schools is Actually a Funding Stream for a Jewish Special Education School

Lakewood Public Schools just asked the state for a “loan” of 10 million dollars to partially bail it out of…

8 years ago

A Picture of Trenton Public Schools. Or, Is This Good Enough for Your Kid?

This is a picture of a young boy receiving physical therapy in an appropriate room in his school..Now click on…

8 years ago

John the Ringworm

“We are hopeful that the winners are ready to get to work to put Newark back in local control,” Abeigon…

8 years ago

Newark’s School Board Elections Results Signal But a Superficial Unity

Newark’s School Board elections are over and the this newly-configured nine-member School Board -- for twenty-two years demoted to "advisory"…

8 years ago