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
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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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I’m just back from Atlantic City, gambler’s paradise, discount shopping mecca, and home to the annual NJ School Boards Convention. In a sign of the
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So I’m here to say that we can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won’t act, I will. In
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Education Law Center, primary advocates for children in poor urban districts through decades of Abbott decisions, has filed an amicus brief in support of children
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According to a report made public yesterday from the Election Law Enforcement Commission, NJEA, New Jersey’s teachers’ union, has donated $707,600 to favored candidates in
NJ’s Embraces School Choice (a little)
It’s great to report on the successful expansion of our Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, which allows districts to open up empty seats to kids
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Tom Moran in today’s Record profiles David Tepper, whose “ views on education put him on a collision course with the state’s teachers union, the
Charter School Performance and the NAACP
Great Wall St. Journal piece today on “the tragedy of American politics.” This tragedy is the opposition of civil rights groups like the NAACP that
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Check out Andy Rotherham’s editorial in Time, which begins with a well-known quotation: “a lot of people who have been hired as teachers are basically
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An interesting special education case blew through the transom this week, Moorestown Board of Education v. S.D. and C.D. on behalf of M.D. M.D. is
NJ Hands in Race To The Top Application
Today the NJ Department of Education submitted its application for the third round of the federal Race To The Top competition. This proposal targets early
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42 New Charter Applications
NJ’s DOE received 42 charter school applications this week. (NJ Spotlight, The Record, Philadelphia Inquirer.) Twelve are redo’s – applicants rejected in previous rounds –
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I appreciate the efforts of Senators Harkin and Enzi to build into the reauthorization bill more flexibility for states and districts while maintaining accountability at
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There’s 4,800 school board members in NJ but only 2,122 have complied with the new law requiring criminal background checks, reports NJ Spotlight. And, according
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NJ Charter Corrections
Julia Sass Rubin, a founding member of Save Our Schools-NJ, has an editorial in NJ Spotlight urging the passage of Bill 3582, which would subject
Finnish Envy
Americans have a bad case of Finnish envy, at least in the world of education. It’s hard to find a more poorly calibrated basis of
