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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Here’s Trenton School Board member Marcellus Smith’s description of Trenton Central High: “a ninth-to-twelfth-grade disaster.” How bad is it? The freshman class typically numbers 800
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. The firestorm continues unabated over
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Memo to Acting Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks from Assistant Commissioner Willa Spicer (see”AHSA Result for State Board Final”) regarding the results of the Alternative High School
Once Again: Why We Lost RTTT
Everyone’s still gorging on the Race To The Top/Schundler/Christie remainders but let’s ignore for just a moment the mass media conviction that the entire mess
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The governor is falling back on an old habit, many, including me, had hoped he had broken: Speak first, think later. By lunchtime Friday, Schundler
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We’re all of-a-theme today as NJ roils and reddens over the increasingly embarrassing set of circumstances surrounding our narrow loss in the federal Race To
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“I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s been a very unusual week.” New Jersey School Boards Association spokesman Frank Belluscio. online pharmacy proscar for
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This morning Gov. Christie fired Education Commissioner Bret Schundler over the Race To The Top snafu. American Enterprise Institute briefly reported that Deputy Commissioner Andy
Most Intriguing Reviewer Comment from our RTTT Application
While the majority of NJEA local affiliates gave only conditional approval to the MOU in participating districts, the state presentation clarified the two areas of
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NJ Spotlight has a great precis on RTTT reviewers’ comments, and also explains why Reviewer 3 took such a shine to us. New Jersey Newsroom
Why We Lost Race To The Top
From the reviewers’ comments: Reviewer 1: “While much of the New Jersey proposal is strong, one important fact makes it unlikely to succeed. 49.9% of
Red Herrings and RTTT
Everyone from the Star-Ledger Editorial Board to 101.5 to Senator Steve Sweeney is atwitter over the fact that our Race To The Top application omitted
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While the Schott Foundation may need an editor (see post below), the Education Law Center made good use of the report “Yes We Can: The
New Jersey Loses Race To The Top?
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While no Black or White Male, non-Latino students were classified as Gifted/Talented in the Newark public schools in the 2005/6 school year and Black Male,
Race To The Top Winners Trickling In
Formal announcement is due from D.C. at noon, but New York, Ohio, Georgia, and North Carolina have already declared themselves winners. Stay tuned.
Giving it Up for Trenton
At what point does a state government concede defeat regarding a school district’s accountability? Seems like that might be right now in the Trenton Public
