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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Michelle Bachman as Education Reformer
Slightly off-topic: check out Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker profile of GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachman as he probes her fundamentalist Christian belief system. While raising
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Milwaukee’s Idolatrous Voucher Bill
Get out your ballots: the Thomas Fordham Foundation is hosting the first annual Education Reform Idol contest. The goal is to anoint the reformiest education
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Results released yesterday of test scores in the New York State Assessment Program showed that the most relentlessly attacked charter schools—Eva Moskowitz’s Harlem Success academies—have
NCLB Turbulence
Odds are high that New Jersey will apply for a waiver on No Child Left Behind sanctions, reports NJ Spotlight and The Record. The federal
NJEA Releases Endorsements
The Political Action Committee of the teachers’ union endorsed 68 candidates for November’s NJ Legislative elections. Conspicuously absent from the list are Senate President Steve
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Newark’s Dancing Lemons
Today’s Wall Street Journal looks at the “dance of the lemons” in Newark. Last year Newark Public Schools received a $5 million Federal SIG (School
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Searching For Consistency in the Charter School Wars
Both NJ Spotlight and PolitickerNJ are reporting on Gov. Christie’s speech at the Iowa Education Summit hosted by Republican Gov. Terry Branstad. According to Spotlight,
Elizabethean Corruption
Check out the Star-Ledger’s expose on corruption within the Elizabeth Public Schools District. Elizabeth has a sordid reputation for nepotism (see this earlier post), and
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The Trenton School Board is still trying to use its $10 million in additional state aid to save the jobs of 129 custodians instead of,
Trenton Schools Update
There’s lots of discussion regarding the pros and cons of tenure. The Trenton Times describes an instance that highlights the difficulties school districts face in
NJ Charter Schools and the Goodness Gap
John Mooney in NJ Spotlight examines the NJ charter school gap between approval of application and opening of brick-and-mortar school. Earlier this year the DOE
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Steve Baker, NJEA Spokesman, on the likelihood of the teachers’ union supporting Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney: I don’t want to prejudge anything, but I’d
Online Learning and the Waning of Teacher Unions
It’s hard to get your arms around—not just the number of bills being enacted but the breadth and depth of changes being made. If somebody
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The Waning of Teacher Unions and the Growth of Technology
Terry Moe, author of the new book “Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools,” writes in today’s Wall St. Journal online pharmacy buy zithromax
“Gov. Big Stick, Meet the Velvet Glove”
That’s my new column at NJ Spotlight. Check it out. As we approach the one-year anniversary of the federal competition Race To The Top, it’s
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Fifty-four NJ schools had a suspicious number of standardized test questions changed from wrong to right answers, reports the Courier-Post. At Ocean Grove Elementary School
