“When someone shows you who they are,” said Maya Angelou, “believe them the first time.” This would have been good…
I was a school board member for twelve years, including nine years as president. I thought I’d seen it all,…
I’ll bet you know that the pace of charter school growth has slowed throughout the country. But you may not…
Let’s say you’re a New Jersey parent of a current 10th grader. Your child, like one-third of New Jersey students,…
Everyone’s talking about the exodus of experienced and qualified staff members at the Schools Development Authority, a product of nepotism…
Today Gov. Phil Murphy gave his 2019 budget address. He’s proposing, as part of this 38.6 billion spending plan, an…
Yesterday I wrote that the nepotism and subsequent dysfunction within certain state departments (looking at you, Department of Education) is…
Various news outlets are reporting on a second scandal (the first was Al Alvarez) at the School Development Authority, the…
True confession: I started writing a post a few days ago on the demise of an important piece of legislation,…
Last week I wrote about the disparities in pay between rank and file educators and those who work in the…