As you all no doubt know by now, Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson has submitted a waiver to the NJ Department of Education to allow her
PolitickerNJ has been all over the increasingly contentious Newark mayoral contest, which it describes as a “proxy for a potential gubernatorial race.” On Wednesday North
If you question whether school reform is the linchpin of the Newark mayoral race, read today’s today’s PolitickerNJ. According to this article, after Sen. Dick
in an essay in the Huffington Post entitled “Poverty, Politics, Racism, and School Reform”: Newark’s inconvenient truth: Our poorest neighborhoods, disproportionately African American, contain some
Yesterday in NJ Spotlight I said “yes,” especially in Newark, given the recent dings to Cami Anderson’s leadership and the vagaries of the mayoral race
From my column today at WHYY Newsworks: This is not Jersey’s best week. Revelations from Bridgegate, along with the peculiar backroom statecraft that spawned the
How much airtime did Gov. Christie devote to education in his State of the State speech yesterday afternoon? The whole megillah was 4,213 words. (Here’s
Mashea Aston, CEO of the Newark Public School Fund, explains the district’s new system of universal enrollment among charter schools and traditional schools (Huffington Post):
There’s lots of chatter about Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s plan to close some of the city schools, although none more strident than the rhetoric from
Lots of news this week about Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s plan, entitled One Newark Portfolio Plan, to reorganize the city’s public schools,. Those plans include