Newark

A Newark Mother of Ten Children Explains Why Her Children Need Charter Schools

Shayvonne Anderson , a Newark mother of ten children who range in age from five to eighteen, explains in the…

10 years ago

Give the Cami-Bashing A Rest: Woes in Newark Go Way Back

My new Spotlight column is out today. It starts here:News from Newark Public Schools is alarming. Earlier this month state…

10 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: Ongoing Battles in NJ over Camden, Newark, PARCC Testing, and School Funding

It starts here:New Jersey’s education reform landscape has always been rocky, and 2014 was no exception, pitted with growing resistance…

10 years ago

New Spotlight Column: Self-Selection of Public Schools and N.J.’s Double Standard

It starts here:Cami Anderson may not win anyone’s Superintendent of the Year award, but you’ve got to give her credit…

10 years ago

QOD: KIPP Asks, “How Are N.J. Charter Schools Really Doing?”

KIPP NJ currently has one public charter high school: Newark Collegiate Academy. And that one school, which had just over…

10 years ago

Protesters Follow Cami Anderson to D.C.

The Washington Post reports on yesterday’s events at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Camden Public Schools’ Turnaround And Community Engagement

It starts here:The statistics are grim in Camden City Schools: according to just-released state data, only 21 percent of children…

10 years ago

A Newark Mother of Five Speaks Truth to Power

This week Mark Weber and Julia Sass Rubin published a “data-driven” analysis of New Jersey’s charter schools. The report, paid…

10 years ago

New Newsworks post: Urban Hope Act Opponents Keep Changing Their Rhetoric

It starts here:Charter school opponents were in mourning this week after they failed to derail a set of amendments to…

10 years ago

Urban Hope Act Amendments Approved by Evil N.J. Republi-Crates

My parents (may their memories be a blessing) would have loved Blue Jersey, that unabashedly 60’s-ish website that drapes itself…

10 years ago