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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U.S. DOE: East Orange Oversegregates Kids with Disabilities
EdWeek’s special education blog is reporting that the U.S. Department of Education has finished its investigation of the East Orange Public Schools District and determined
Romney: Make Kindergarten Enrollment Contingent on Parental Training
Everyone’s tweeting Gov. Mitt Romney’s comments to NBC’s Brian Williams about early education. Politics K-12 has the write-up. In an interview at NBC’s Education Nation
What’s Going on in Camden?
What to make of the debacle in Camden last week when the School Board there, considering four proposals to build new schools, declined to approve
Sunday Leftovers
The Courier Times Editorial Board hopes that the Camden School Board’s rejection of all four proposals for charter schools (see post below) isn’t “a case
Camden School Board Shoots Down All Urban Hope Act Proposals
In what the local media are calling a “surprise move,” the Camden School Board rejected all applicants who proposed building and running new schools under
Here’s An Example of Seniority-Based Bumping Rights
In Trenton Public Schools, reports the Trenton Times, online pharmacy purchase wellbutrin online generic Monica Carmichael has directed the early childhood development program since 2008,
QOD: The Injustice of Local Control
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Confronting the High Costs of Special Education in NJ
My WHYY Newsworks post this week looks at New Jersey’s high costs associated with special education, specifically our habit of sending children with disabilities to
Education Reform as a Healthy Ecosystem
In today’s New York Times, David Brooks reminisces about the good old days when the Republican Party was a fusion of two different types of
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The New York Times looks at “the ruptured relationship between teachers’ unions and Democrats like Rahm Emanuel” and the consequential shift in where the unions
Mapping the Christie Education Agenda (plus, special ed)
Check out my column today at NJ Spotlight, which reviews the Christie Administration’s education agenda in light of the three reports (the last one just
Sunday Leftovers
Lakewood Public Schools falsified graduation rate data in order to secure a $6 million SIG grant. Now, according to the Asbury Park Press, Acting Schools
Cost Per Pupil in 6 NJ Poor Urban School Districts
One slide from Comm. Cerf’s powerpoint at yesterday’s Convocation (see post below) is titled “Education spending in high-need districts exceeds statewide average.” I don’t know
Cerf Convocation: NJ’s Latest Test Scores
The big NJ education story today is yesterday’s Convocation at Jackson Liberty High School, featuring Ed. Comm. Chris Cerf, his management team, and 400 members
Restricting Tenure to “Master Teachers”
A NJ educator, Dr. Michael Hoban, proposes a merit pay system in today’s NJ Spotlight in which only “Master Teachers” get tenure and, then, are
New Newsworks Post
My post today at WHYY Newsworks looks at this month’s release of a report from the Christie Administration’s Education Transformation Task Force and, more specifically,
Chicago and Newark; Emmanuel and Booker
The similarities between Chicago and Newark are eerie. Both cities have outspoken Democratic, reform-minded mayors at the helm (Rahm Emmanuel and Cory Booker respectively) who
Sunday Leftovers
The Times of Trenton profiles Morris Plains School District, which is participating in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. This program allows children to cross
Nicholas Kristof on the Chicago Strike and the Transmission of Inequity
From today’s New York Times: Inner-city urban schools today echo the “separate but equal” system of the early 1950s. In the Chicago Public Schools where
And You Wonder Why They Call Us the “Soprano State”
In other corruption news, former Toms River Superintendent Michael J. Ritacco will be sentenced tomorrow in Trenton for, according to the Asbury Park Press, accepting
