Earlier this month Newark Mayor Ras Baraka gave his “State of the City” speech and devoted a long section to education. This is important not
Marcus Winters notes that “the rapid expansion of charters has done more to spread high quality education in America’s cities than perhaps any other modern
Jersey Jazzman is on a tear: he’s just published his fifth installment of an ongoing critique of Stephen Chiger’s piece in The 74, (see my
Leave it to Jersey Jazzman, a.k.a., Mark Weber, to take offense — and then become offensive — after reading someone else’s opinion that might not
Last night was the first Newark School Board candidate forum at St. James AME Church. I wasn’t able to make it there and haven’t seen
Today the New York Times, the Wall St. Journal, A.P., the Star-Ledger, and NJ Spotlight report on the alarming news that 30 school buildings in Newark
Just when it seemed like N.J.’s absentee governor Chris Christie couldn’t do any more damage to his brand, yesterday he managed to verify the perception
Newark Teachers Union President John Abeigon has an editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight where he argues that New Jersey taxpayers should “take a close look at
On Friday afternoon Newark Mayor Ras Baraka appeared in a closed City Council meeting (YouTube video here) and told city leaders that students who attend
I’ve followed discourse about Newark’s public education system for years and, suddenly, there’s a shift. While education politics and policy is typically overheated in New