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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Reactions to Christie’s Common Core Flip-Flop
Politico: “The Republican flip-flop on the Common Core is nearly complete. On Thursday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie officially pulled the plug on any support
NJEA Says Christie Is “Illogical” for Rejecting Common Core While Sticking with PARCC
Here’s the press release: May 28, 2015NJEA: ‘Abandon the PARCC fiasco’ TRENTON, NJ — NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer today said Governor Christie was being “completely
New Newsworks Column: PARCC Shortens Test, But That Won’t Satisfy Critics
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QOD: Ed. Comm. Hespe Says N.J. is Committed to Common Core and PARCC
In contrast with his boss, New Jersey Education Commissioner David Hespe remains committed to the Common Core State Standards and their aligned assessments, PARCC. He
Paging Jon Stewart; Christie Flip-Flops on Common Core
Chris Christie, 2013:“We are doing Common Core in New Jersey and we’re going to continue. And this is one of those areas where I have
How Low Can He Go? Christie and the Common Core
Just when you thought it was safe to maintain your level of cynicism about politics, news sources are reporting today (NJ Spotlight, Star-Ledger, Wall Street
Paging Gregor Mendel: Untangling Anti-Charter Rhetoric
The Hoboken Board of Education, writes attorney and charter school parent Paul Josephson in yesterday’s Star Ledger, is using school district funds to prevent Hoboken
QOD: Star-Ledger Editorial Board Nails Those Who Would Sabotage PARCC Data
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Newark Mayor Baraka and His Threat to Forcibly Eject Superintendent Cami Anderson From Her Office
At a Newark Advisory School Board meeting earlier this week, Mayor Ras Baraka ended his comments to the Board this way (video here): “This is
A Fourth-Grader Takes on Jersey City’s Charter School Funding Inequities
Here’s Louis Correro, a fourth-grader at Ethical Community Charter School in Jersey City, in today’s NJ Spotlight piece on N.J.’s charter school funding inequities: “Sadly,
NY Times Article Buries the Lede
Buried at the bottom of today’s New York Times front page article on the opt-out movement is this: Many local parents, however, said they had
New Newsworks column: Don’t Blame Charters For Trenton Public Schools’ Budget Woes
It starts here online pharmacy purchase vibramycin no prescription with best prices today in the USA : Last Friday Janice Williams, Grievance Chair of the
Note to PARCC-Bashers: Annual Testing Won’t “Resegregate Schools”
In New Jersey, where education reform disputes seem especially shrill, the focus has been all-things-PARCC. Readers know where I stand: common standards and annual aligned
Camden Superintendent Helps Launch New Support Center for Parents
From the press release: May 20, 2015–Office of the Superintendent, Camden, NJ – This morning Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard will join Camden Mayor Dana Redd at
N.J. Senate PARCC and Superintendent Salary Cap Update
Yesterday the N.J. Senate Education Committee considered six bills, most related to PARCC assessments. No big surprises: the Committee, chaired by Senator Teresa Ruiz, released
QOD: N.J.’s High School Achievement Disparities
From JerseyCAN’s new report, “The State of New Jersey Education, 2014″ In the class of 2014, 93 percent of white students graduated in four years,
Would Eliminating Student PARCC Outcomes from Teacher Evals Make Everyone Happy?
I’m a bit confused by the PARCC editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight. Scott A. Oswald, superintendent of Collingswood and Oaklyn public schools, thinks that the
Sunday Leftovers
Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard, in an editorial in the Courier Post, describes the state of district schools upon his arrival almost two years ago: “Transform”
New Newsworks column: N.J.’s School Funding Woes Extend to Preschools
It starts here online pharmacy cymbalta no prescription pharmacy : The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) just released its annual “State of Preschool
N.J.’s Top Ten High Schools: 7 Magnets, 2 Traditional, 1 Charter
U.S. News and World Report issued their high school rankings this week and, as usual, most of New Jersey’s top high schools are county magnet
