Newark

The Facts about Newark’s Charter School Expansion

Andrew Martin, former teacher and current director of special projects at KIPPNJ,  drills down on student achievement data in Newark.…

9 years ago

Advice About School Choice From an Expert: A Student Herself

Imani Thornton, a graduate of Chicago’s Southland College Prep charter school and a student at Princeton University, has a few…

9 years ago

Instead of Camden & Newark Charter School Cacophony, Let’s Listen to Parent Voices

Over the last couple of weeks, elders associated with anti-choice lobbying groups have mounted attacks on the expansion of hybrid…

9 years ago

Response to WSJ Op-Ed: Don’t Give Up On Unions and Systemic School Reform

An editorial in yesterday’s Wall St. Journal argues that philanthropists committed to improving education should give up on donating directly…

9 years ago

A Newark Mom Takes on Charter-Hating Adults who are “Crippling the Future of Newark Children”

Last week the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and WNYC hosted a panel that included Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Superintendent Chris…

9 years ago

Newsflash: Camden is not Newark

Today NJ Spotlight looks at Camden Public Schools’ plans to create a single enrollment process for parents who register their…

9 years ago

Fact-Checking Education Law Center

Education Law Center is back on the charter-hating trail again as it determinedly battles impoverished parents in long-failing districts who…

9 years ago

New NJ Spotlight column: Moving Beyond Good v. Evil in Newark School Reform Debate

It starts here:Ras Baraka hasn’t just cooled the campaign rhetoric, he’s proven that he knows the value of eclectic and…

9 years ago

Where Did All That Facebook Money Go in Newark?

The Star-Ledger asks, “where did that $200 million to Newark Public Schools go?”The biggest chunk, 44.6%, went to labor and…

9 years ago

Bellwether “Briefing Book”: By 2035, Charter Schools will Educate 20-40% of all American Public School Students

Bellwether has just issued a “briefing book” called “The State of the Charter School Movement” which “reviews the current state…

9 years ago