There’s a new kind of fairy tale in the annals of those who denigrate efforts at education reform. It goes something like this: 1) Beleaguered
From today’s Wall St. Journal: Newark’s new schools chief, Chris Cerf, said Wednesday he wants to keep an open door to city leaders.In some cases,
Last week Theresa Luhm, managing director of the Education Law Center proposed a timeline for a transition to local control for Newark Public Schools. But
Today’s Wall St. Journal reports that Newark Public Schools currently has 453 staff members in the pool of “educators without placement.” That’s 15% of Newark
Dominique D. Lee, the founder and chief executive officer of Newark’s BRICK (Building Responsible Intelligent Creative Kids), has a great editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight
John Mooney asks, “All the stir about the state’s plans to relinquish control of Newark’s schools has raised a collateral question: What does all this mean
The new state-appointed superintendent of Newark Public Schools says he’s committed to returning New Jersey’s largest school district to local control and confident he can
It depends upon whom you ask. The latest wranglings over the return of local control to Newark Public Schools is predicated on an agreement between
That’s Tom Moran in yesterday’s Star-Ledger editorial on the story that’s lit up the state and national media, as well as the blogosphere: on Tuesday
From today’s New York Times interview: Ms. Anderson had, in her tenure and her resignation, become a symbol of the raging national argument about how