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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QOD: NJ’s Economic Achievement Gap
New Jersey School Boards Association on the impacts of poverty on student achievement (Star Ledger): “Overall New Jersey’s students performing well on nationwide measures of
Newark School Closures: A Community Assault or a Community-Minded Response to Educational Needs?
There’s lots of chatter about Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s plan to close some of the city schools, although none more strident than the rhetoric from
QTD: Rolling Stone on Apocolyptic Camden; It’s Partly Christie’s Fault
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone describes the hellhole of Camden, NJ (think “The Wire”) where 13,000 children go to school: [I]n Camden, chaos is already
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“Cami Anderson, the superintendent of schools in Newark, has proposed another round of sensible and bold reforms. And she is facing the predictable shrieks of
New WHYY Post: Why Do Teacher Unions Care About Cory Booker’s Successor?
Did you hear about last Monday’s “National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education?” Maybe not. Despite a media blitz from the American
Three Camden High School Seniors Deemed “College Ready” by College Board
Just out from Associated Press: The new school superintendent in Camden says it was a “kick-in-the-stomach moment” when he learned that only three district high
NJ DOE Uncountable at Special Education Accountability Hearing
Yesterday the Assembly Education Committee heard testimony from the state auditor and New Jersey School Boards Association about the lack of fiscal accountability at NJ’s
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, that describes “leaky roofs, disintegrating
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yesterday’s Gannet papers ran a special section on school choice focusing on NJ’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. Contributers were NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer online
NJ Assembly Hears About “Wasteful Spending” on Special Education
The NJ Assembly Education Committee is hearing testimony today from DOE staffers about “wasteful spending” in NJ’s industry of private special education schools, which are
Four New Charter Schools Approved for Jersey
Four charter organizations have just been approved by the NJ Department of Education to open new schools in September. According to NJ Spotlight, the four
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today’s Asbury Park Press editorial debate on the virtues (or not) of NJ’s public school choice program that allows students to cross district boundaries upon
Sunday Leftovers
Are NJ schools successfully combating acts of harassment, intimidation, and bullying? The DOE just released its new database, reports NJ Spotlight: “Tellingly, after a first
QOD: on the new “punching bag” in ed policy, otherwise known as the “Common Core”
The Common Core, writes Evan Stone, former elementary teacher and founder of Educators for Excellence, is “not a curriculum” and “it doesn’t tell teachers how
Why the Opposition to Educational Hope in Camden?
Here’s today’s WHYY Newsworks column: Philadelphia’s Mastery Charter Schools is hoping to run a school in Camden. This week, Camden Public Schools announced that is
That’s an Expensive Lunch
The Camden School Board just signed a $120,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed on behalf of three fifth-grade Hispanic children who were forced to eat
Prediction of the Day re: Common Core
Alexander Russo at Scholastic remembers all the negative reactions to the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act and predicts that the current ruckus over the
