Newark

New Spotlight Column: Can’t Charters and Tradition Schools Just Get Along?

From today's NJ  Spotlight:NJ Spotlight just reported that next year one out of four Newark public school students will opt…

11 years ago

Newark Charter Schools Chief Finds Common Ground with Student Protestors

Ryan Hill, founder of TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, responds to yesterday's student protest against Cami Anderson’s One Newark plan:"There…

11 years ago

Here’s your cognitive dissonance for the week:

Steve Fulop, mayor of Jersey City and gubernatorial hopeful, endorsed Ras Baraka for mayor of Newark back in February but,…

11 years ago

What Newark Can Learn From Camden

Here's the first part of my column today at Newsworks WHYY:  Everyone's talking about the political upheaval in Newark as…

11 years ago

Brooks: In the Newark mayoral race, Baraka Represent the “Old Stability” for Municipal Workers While Jeffries Represents a “Shot at Improvement”

In today’s New York Times columnist David Brooks frames the race between mayoral candidates Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries as…

11 years ago

Newark Public Schools Responds to “Critique” of Charter/Traditional Collaboration Plan

This past January Bruce Baker ( Rutgers prof. and anti-reform blogger) and Mark Weber (Baker’s Ph.D. student and anti-reform blogger)…

11 years ago

Ras Baraka: the Best Thing to Happen to NJ Education Reform

That's the title of my new NJ Spotlight column:It’s painful to say, but New Jersey’s education reform community might benefit…

11 years ago

Ed Week Explains TEAM’s Purchase of Newark’s 18th Av. School

Education Week  explains how KIPP’s TEAM Charter Schools in Newark financed the purchase of Newark’s 18th Avenue School (see my…

11 years ago

No, Newark isn’t Replacing 300 Veteran Teachers with TFA Teachers

Fatimah Burnam Watkins, Executive Director of the NJ chapter of Teach For America, corrects the record  and replies to the…

11 years ago

NJEA President: Fire Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson

Newark Update: After a vote of “no confidence," hostile meetings,  and personal attacks (or at least a reference to her…

11 years ago