Trenton

Trenton Charter School Boasts of Student Gains with Similar Cohorts

The Times of Trenton (sadly diminishing into a local version of the  Star-Ledger as the paper prepares to close its…

11 years ago

Mayoral Elections, School Reform, and Labor Unions

Here's today's WHYY Newsworks column: You know it's silly season when the big N.J. mayoral election news of the day…

11 years ago

Did You Know That Trenton’s Next Mayor Selects the School Board?

Today's WHYY Newsworks column: New Jersey's mayoral elections are in two weeks and the eyes of the education community are…

11 years ago

Trenton’s Next Mayor and the City’s Schools

I covered Saturday's mayoral forum for WHYY Newsworks: At the mayoral forum Saturday morning "Setting Trenton's Education Agenda," sponsored by…

11 years ago

Trenton Superintendent Still in Trenton

It’s been widely reported that Trenton Superintendent Francisco Duran is a finalist for a big promotion: superintendent of the Anne…

11 years ago

New Spotlight Column: Can’t Charters and Tradition Schools Just Get Along?

From today's NJ  Spotlight:NJ Spotlight just reported that next year one out of four Newark public school students will opt…

11 years ago

Sen. Pres. Steve Sweeney and Sup. Paymon Rouhanifard Go after “Surplus Adminisitrators”

We’re awash in a new superstorm called Bridgegate whose land impact is TBD, but you can count on one thing…

11 years ago

How Trenton High School Fell Down in the First Place

Not to jinx anything, but it’s beginning to look like Trenton is going to get a new high school. Today’s…

11 years ago

Education isn’t the only thing rotten at Camden High

There's been tons of coverage of the decrepit conditions at Trenton Central High School, including this from the Huffington Post,…

11 years ago

Just How Popular is School Choice in New Jersey? Too Popular for the Christie Administration.

Last week at WHYY Newsworks I wrote about the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program’s (IPSCP) growing pains, which have been…

11 years ago