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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Christie and Cerf have become a bad cop, good cop duo in dealing with the NJEA. For now, Christie has stopped issuing political fusillades against
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NJ’s “Extreme Segregation” of Poor Schoolchildren
Here’s Dr. Bruce Baker, Professor at Rutgers Graduate School of Education, in an A.P. interview with Geoff Mulvihill, on what New Jersey can do to
Out-Of-District Placements in Trenton
This morning’s Trenton Times highlights a new initiative from Trenton Public Schools to try to lessen the expense of educating children with disabilities. Currently Trenton
How Peaceful is Camden?
The Courier-Post is all over Camden Public Schools’ failure to accurately report incidents of violence and vandalism. (See earlier story here.) Each year, per state
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PolitickerNJ Powerlist of 2011, which recognizes the 100 most powerful people in New Jersey politics, is hot off the press. Here’s the education-related winners: #3:
NJ Legislature Not Expected to Pass Ed Reform Bills
WHYY is reporting that “New Jersey lawmakers are not expected to enact education reform proposals at next month’s final meeting of the current legislative session.”
Abbott Preschools in Plainfield; the Straw Horse of Private vs. Public
I’d like to revisit a post from last week. In that post, “OSA [Opportunity Scholarship Act]: The False Dichotomy of Public and Private Schools,” I
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Charter School Bill “Thoroughly Misguided”
Neil Brown, Chief Academic Officer for RISE, which is designing a charter school for homeless kids and children of incarcerated parents, has a measured editorial
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There’s a bleak report out from Advocates for Children of NJ, which shows a 32% increase in the poverty rate among children of Newark. Regarding
OSA: The False Dichotomy of Private and Public Schools
The Star-Ledger’s PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter decided to rate a statement uttered by Save Our Schools-NJ’s spokesperson, Julia Sass Rubin, who is lobbying hard against the Opportunity
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Andy Rotherham at Eduwonk puts in context today’s piece in the New York Times that describes how U.S. Sec. of Education Arne Duncan overestimated the
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The Courier-Post online pharmacy order periactin without prescription with best prices today in the USA reports that Bill A 4360 will come up for a
Update on Interdistrict School Choice
New Jersey is justly proud of its Interdistrict Public School Choice Program (IPSCP), which allows kids to transfer to districts outside of their zip code,
Three of Four Charter Applicants Knocked Out in Trenton
This past Spring two of Trenton’s charter schools were closed down for either sketchy finances or failure to make adequate academic progress. Four new charters
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Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association, may have gotten more than he bargained for when he commissioned a report from “21 accomplished
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