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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From NACSA: “Growing Great [Charter] Schools in New Jersey
This week the National Association of Charter School Authorizers issued a case study of New Jersey’s charter school environment called “Growing Great Schools in New
We Are the World
New Jersey is America, at least in regards to minority students’ lack of access to higher-level coursework, qualified teachers, and fair disciplinary procedures. From today’s
What Do New York Parents Think About de Blasio’s Attack on Charter Schools?
According to a new Quinnipiac poll released yesterday, 40% of voters want NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to increase the number of charter schools. Only
What Newark Can Learn From Camden
Here’s the first part of my column today at Newsworks WHYY: online pharmacy wellbutrin for sale with best prices today in the USA Everyone’s talking
Brooks: In the Newark mayoral race, Baraka Represent the “Old Stability” for Municipal Workers While Jeffries Represents a “Shot at
In today’s New York Times columnist David Brooks online pharmacy seroquel buy with best prices today in the USA frames the race between mayoral candidates
Newark Public Schools Responds to “Critique” of Charter/Traditional Collaboration Plan
This past January Bruce Baker ( Rutgers prof. and anti-reform blogger) and Mark Weber (Baker’s Ph.D. student and anti-reform blogger) released a report entitled “An
QOD: What is NJ’s New Ed Comm. View on Charter Schools?
New Jersey’s charter school movement was born in the late 1990s, with David Hespe – now interim superintendent in Willingboro public schools – as commissioner
Sunday Leftovers
ICYMI: Here’s my Spotlight piece on why Newark mayoral candidate Ras Baraka is the best thing to happen to NJ education reform. Also, here’s Friday’s
Charter School Funding Mythology and de Blasio
I’ve blogged before about charter-haters’ false dichotomy of private sector funding and public sector funding. Here’s the mythology: charter schools rely on private funding and,
Ras Baraka: the Best Thing to Happen to NJ Education Reform
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Ed Week Explains TEAM’s Purchase of Newark’s 18th Av. School
Education Week explains how KIPP’s TEAM Charter Schools in Newark financed the purchase of Newark’s 18th Avenue School (see my post here). The key, says
Are NJ Teacher Pensions Really “Dead?”
No idea, but this Jersey blogger online pharmacy buy buspar no prescription warns that, according to actuarial reports, teachers invested in the state pension plan
Sunday Leftovers
“The New Jersey Education Association finished 2013 with its biggest tab yet for lobbying and political spending – in fact, the amount far exceeded spending
Newark Hot Mess: Charter School Expansion and Jersey Politics Collide!
Bob Braun, recently unplugged from fact-finders at the Star Ledger and giddily flinging about allegations like confetti, is currently fixated on TEAM Charter Schools’ purchase
QOD: Cerf Pulls No Punches
Chris Cerf’s parting shot, addressed to NJ school leaders, addresses NJEA’s increasingly assertive campaign against new standardized testing, teaching evaluations, and, protestations aside, the Common
New WHYY Post: Is Mastery Charter Schools’ Camden Move Good for Kids?
Here’s buy amoxil online buy amoxil online no prescription the beginning: “All is flux, nothing stays still,” said Plato, but you’d never know that in
Democratic Party Split on Education Reform
Speaking of the internecine split within the Democratic Party on education reform (see quote below), Andy Rotherham of Bellwether and Richard Whitmire (of“On the Rocketship:
The Rift within the Democratic Party re: Charter Schools
Scott Shackford, an editor at the Conservative publication Reason, notes buy metformin online metformin no prescription the rifts within the Republican Party and takes comfort
Irony Alert
Assemblyman Dave Rible (R-Monmouth) plans to introduce legislation “that will prohibit the administration of tests other than assessments currently mandated by the state and federal
Sunday Leftovers
Tom Moran at the Star Ledger has a must-read editorial this morning that begin, “[t]he political meltdown in Newark over school reform has reached an
