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Shutting Down Bad Schools is Unpopular, But is it Best for Kids?

From Mike Petrelli and Aaron Churchill in the Wall St. Journal:As difficult and disliked as school closures can be, a…

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NJEA Goes Off the Rails: PARCC, Pensions, and Camden School Choice

NJEA is on a roll. Just over the couple of months New Jersey’s primary teacher union leaders have mounted a…

10 years ago

Statistic of the Day: Newark Families’ Top Choices Are Charter Schools

Newark Public Schools released data this week on parent preferences among the district's seventy-two traditional and charter schools. The One…

10 years ago

Newark Families’ First Choice: Charter Schools

Today’s NJ Spotlight reports on the second year of One Newark’s universal enrollment system, whereby parents get to rank their…

10 years ago

Twenty Years of State Control in Newark

Today’s NJ Advance Media article (i.e., Star-Ledger)  notes this July marks the 20th anniversary of state control of Newark.  Over…

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Irony of the Day: Education Law Center FIghts Camden Parents’ Rights to Educational Equity

To no one’s surprise, Education Law Center is threatening legal action against the expansion of  renaissance schools in Camden, a…

10 years ago

New Newsworks column: Can Camden’s Renaissance Schools Challenge Anti-Charter Rhetoric?

It starts here:There’s been lots of chatter during the last few months from those who resent the expansion of school…

10 years ago

A Few Facts about Camden Public Schools’ Transformation

There was lots of bloggy, tweety chatter yesterday about one of Camden Public Schools' five community outreach meetings last week,…

10 years ago

QOD; Chris Cerf on Newark’s Education Politics

From today's NJ Spotlight:Chris Cerf, Christie’s former education commissioner and arguably the chief architect of his reform approach, says great…

10 years ago

Camden Parents Rally for “Choice and Change”

Parents for Great Camden Schools, which describes itself as  “a local organization of families and community leaders committed to the…

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