Newark

COMMENTARY: Education Law Center’s Magic Elixir of Integration Won’t Help Newark’s Black Families

Today Chalkbeat has a piece dissecting a current lawsuit, pressed by Education Law Center (ELC), that charges Newark’s charter sector…

4 years ago

Charter Schools Do Not Take Money From Other Public Schools, Say Petrilli and Lee

What do Gov. Phil Murphy and Acting Department of Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan have against public charter schools? More specifically,…

4 years ago

Newark Public Schools, Traditional and Charter, Celebrate Their Best-In-The-State Rankings

Here are two press releases, one from Newark Public Schools celebrating that U.S. News & World Report ranked two of…

4 years ago

Dramatic Drop in Newark Students Applying to College–Except For Two Types of Public Schools

The pandemic takes its educational toll in countless ways and one of them is a dramatic drop in Newark high…

4 years ago

NJCF Statement on Education Law Center’s Legal Attack on Newark Charter School Families

This is a press release from the New Jersey Children's Foundation.* At risk today is the fate of 8,500 children…

4 years ago

JAMES: In Newark, Governor Murphy Was Our Guy—Until He Wasn’t

In my last editorial I shared my prayers for a safe return to school. But we need far more than…

4 years ago

Newark District Magnet School Celebrates First-Gen Student Accepted to Seven Ivy League Colleges!

Congratulations to Janic Aguirre of Bard Early College High School, one of Newark Public School District's admissions-based magnet schools. Janic…

4 years ago

JAMES: A Prayer for Newark Schools’ Reopening

Before I talk about how happy I am that our kids will be going back to school, I want to…

4 years ago

Data Point: As Newark Charter Enrollment Increases, All Schools Rise

Just several weeks after New Jersey earned a spot at the top of national rankings for public education, a new Stanford…

4 years ago

New Newark Student Learning Data: All Newark Students Rise, With Variations Among Charter, Magnet, and District

Today Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) released an analysis of student academic performance in all Newark…

4 years ago