Trenton

After Nine Superintendents in Ten Years, Maybe Trenton Public Schools Has Found a Winner

The headline says it all in today's Trentonian: “Trenton Public Schools board hires new superintendent with prior district experience.” That's…

3 years ago

Judge Orders Trenton Teachers Back to School; Union Lawyer Compares District to ‘Saddam Hussein’s Regime’

Last Friday the Trenton Board of Education filed a lawsuit in Superior Court of New Jersey because teachers are refusing…

4 years ago

Camden & Trenton School Leaders Hail Biden’s ‘American Family Plan’ as Transformational for Students Nationwide

Educational experts and public charter school leaders in New Jersey today released statements on President Biden’s proposed American Family Plan…

4 years ago

Trenton School Board Sues Teachers to Force In-School Instruction

This past Friday the Trenton Board of Education filed a lawsuit in Superior Court of New Jersey because teachers are…

4 years ago

COMMENTARY: What Does Education Law Center Have Against 8,500 Newark Schoolchildren?

Today the Education Law Center is back in court, once again fighting parents who want to have alternatives to traditional…

4 years ago

Five Students at Trenton’s Biggest Public Charter School Win National Award For Destigmatizing Mental Health

Yesterday, a group of five high school students at Foundation Academies – a high-performing public charter school network in Trenton…

4 years ago

Court Rules in Favor of Montclair Teachers Union; Experts Beg to Differ

Essex County Superior Judge James Paganelli has just ruled in favor of the Montclair Education Association, which is challenging the…

4 years ago

Jersey City and Trenton Join Newark in Keeping Schools Schools Closed Through Spring

The 30,000 students in Jersey City’s public schools have not seen the inside of their schools since last March when…

4 years ago

After a Decade of Opposing Voucher Programs, I’m Wondering If I Was Wrong

This is the first in a series of three pieces on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to parochial and…

4 years ago

How the New Jersey Department of Education Went From Technology Leader to Technology Laggard

On Monday I wrote about Paterson Public Schools’ poor implementation of home instruction during this pandemic, hindered largely by the…

5 years ago