Earlier this month Newark Mayor Ras Baraka gave his "State of the City" speech and devoted a long section to…
Marcus Winters notes that "the rapid expansion of charters has done more to spread high quality education in America’s cities…
Jersey Jazzman is on a tear: he’s just published his fifth installment of an ongoing critique of Stephen Chiger’s piece…
Leave it to Jersey Jazzman, a.k.a., Mark Weber, to take offense -- and then become offensive -- after reading someone…
Last night was the first Newark School Board candidate forum at St. James AME Church. I wasn’t able to make…
Today the New York Times, the Wall St. Journal, A.P., the Star-Ledger, and NJ Spotlight report on the alarming news that…
Just when it seemed like N.J.’s absentee governor Chris Christie couldn’t do any more damage to his brand, yesterday he…
Newark Teachers Union President John Abeigon has an editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight where he argues that New Jersey taxpayers should…
On Friday afternoon Newark Mayor Ras Baraka appeared in a closed City Council meeting (YouTube video here) and told city…
I’ve followed discourse about Newark’s public education system for years and, suddenly, there’s a shift. While education politics and policy…