From today’s NJ Spotlight: NJ Spotlight just reported that next year one out of four Newark public school students will opt to attend a charter
Ryan Hill, founder of TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, responds to yesterday’s student protest against Cami Anderson’s One Newark plan: “There is a degree to
Steve Fulop, mayor of Jersey City and gubernatorial hopeful, endorsed Ras Baraka for mayor of Newark back in February but, according to today’s PolitickerNJ, Fulop’s
Here’s the first part of my column today at Newsworks WHYY: Everyone’s talking about the political upheaval in Newark as Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries
In today’s New York Times columnist David Brooks frames the race between mayoral candidates Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries as “regular vs. reformer.” Brooks explains
This past January Bruce Baker ( Rutgers prof. and anti-reform blogger) and Mark Weber (Baker’s Ph.D. student and anti-reform blogger) released a report entitled “An
That’s the title of my new NJ Spotlight column: It’s painful to say, but New Jersey’s education reform community might benefit from a victory by
Education Week explains how KIPP’s TEAM Charter Schools in Newark financed the purchase of Newark’s 18th Avenue School (see my post here). The key, says
Fatimah Burnam Watkins, Executive Director of the NJ chapter of Teach For America, corrects the record and replies to the rumor that Newark Superintendent Cami
Newark Update: After a vote of “no confidence,” hostile meetings, and personal attacks (or at least a reference to her children), Superintendent Cami Anderson is