Newark Superintendent Is Advising School Board Members to Lie to the State
Just when you think Newark Public Schools District can’t get any more dysfunctional, another perversion pops up. Example: today Chalkbeat reports that during October’s board
2022 Mid-Terms: Winners Listened to 81% of Parents Who Support School Choice
This is a press release from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Education played a significant role in the 2022 election cycle in America—and
Top New Jersey Officials Demand More Honesty and Less Vomit From Murphy’s Education Department As Student Proficiency Plummets
When someone stands up and says New Jersey schools are #1 I have an immediate reaction to vomit because I know that’s not true. That’s
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COMMENTARY: Hear Me Out on My Voucher Proposal
This is the third in a series on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to parochial and private schools. The first one is here and
COMMENTARY: Lowering Standards Appears to Be Contagious, Too. I’m Looking at You, New York City.
CASES SPIKE IN NEW YORK CITY There’s another virus spreading in the tri-state area and, while not fatal, it is dangerous. This is the disease
Oops, Balanced Literacy Doesn’t Work Like We’ve Said It Did for Half a Century. Our Bad.
“Pouring over the work of contemporary reading researchers has led us to believe that aspects of balanced literacy need some ‘rebalancing.’” Those words, written by
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New NJ Spotlight Column: NJ’s School Funding Formula and Abbott Designations Are Fossilized: Time to Move On
It starts here: In 1991, two German hikers found a frozen body in the Otzal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border. “Otzi,” as he’s fondly called,
Here’s NJEA’s Finance Report (Including Vince Giordano’s Base Salary of $492K)
From Mike Antonucci’s EIA: The New Jersey Education Association had a negative net worth, primarily due to pension and health care liabilities owed to its
How Far Will Teacher Union Leaders Go to Undermine Standardized Testing?
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QOD: A Newark Charter School Leader Describes His Students’ Special Needs and Calls for Collaboration, Not Combativeness
Misha Simmons, online pharmacy https://peachtreeallergyclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/elavil.html no prescription Executive Director of University Heights Charter School (UHCS) in Newark, describes his student population (90% African-American, 10% Hispanic,
In Which I Explain One of the Reasons I Do What I Do
It starts here: Here’s Donald Trump, America’s likely Republican presidential nominee, describing his vision of the federal role in public education: I’m not cutting services,
Parsing Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s Education Commentary in his State of the City Speech
Earlier this month Newark Mayor Ras Baraka gave his “State of the City” speech and devoted a long section to education. This is important not
QOD: NYS Regents Chancellor off to an “Unprofessional Start”
From the Buffalo News online pharmacy buy arava online no prescription pharmacy ; It doesn’t augur well for excellence when the new chancellor of the
Trenton’s Special Education Secret (and one piece of its budget crisis): 900 Children Bussed Away Each Day to Other Schools
Everyone knows it but just about everyone is afraid to say it: New Jersey’s school funding formula is irreparably broken. For proof, legislators need to
Is Refusing Tests Just Like Fighting for Abolition and Marriage Equality?
At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students did not sit for the
New Jersey has “Massive Achievement Gap” While New York’s is Only “Large,” via EEI Index
Education Cities and Great Schools have created a new tool that quantifies trends in achievement gaps in each state and in some cities. The tool
QOD: Common Enrollment Offers a “Simple Reform” that Increases Access for Low-Income Families
Marcus Winters notes that “the rapid expansion of charters has done more to spread high quality education in America’s cities than perhaps any other modern
New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa Suggests Poverty is Destiny; Has She Gone Too Far?
New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, queen of the opt-out movement in New York State and heroine to teacher union leaders, is reaping widespread criticism for
Sunday Leftovers
The New York Times’ lede on a story about Montclair Public Schools reveals the writer’s misunderstanding of the word “progressive” : Many battles have been fought
Are Newark’s North Star Teachers Inferior to Teachers in Rich Suburban Districts? Mark Weber says “Yes.”
Jersey Jazzman is on a tear: he’s just published his fifth installment of an ongoing critique of Stephen Chiger’s piece in The 74, (see my
N.J. Suburban Schools are “Not as Good as You Think”
On Monday I spoke at a launch event for Pacific Research Institute’s release of a report called ““Not As Good as You Think Why Middle-Class
Perfect Example of #OptOutSoWhite
In this op-ed a Verona Public Schools mother urges parents to opt their kids out of upcoming PARCC tests because: The PARCC assessments have never
Headline vs. Lede in NYT Story on Charter School DIscipline Policies
Headline on today’s Motoko Rich story: “Charter Schools Suspend Black and Disabled Students More, Study Says” Lede in today’s Motoko Rich story: “These inequities are
Should High School Graduation be Contingent on Proficiency?
“I find it astonishingly unfair,” she said. “We are going to have to look at how we might intervene on behalf of this year’s graduating
QOD: WSJ on NYC Mayor de Blasio’s “Embrace” of UFT & Unified Antipathy towards Charters
Read the whole article but here are a few tidbits: Mayor Bill de Blasio…has embraced the United Federation of Teachers and its president, Michael Mulgrew,
Buffalo News: NYS Regents Turning into Union-Sponsored “Special Interest Organization”
The Buffalo News opines on the pending election of Betty Rosa as Chancellor of the New York State Regents: Change appears to be on the
