KIPP NJ Students Teach Us How To “Be The Change”

Last Wednesday KIPP New Jersey hosted the 10th annual “Be the Change” celebration, its primary fundraising initiative. By the end of the evening KIPP NJ,

Newark Mom on LIFO Lawsuit: “I’m Just a Parent Who Wants To Make A Change”

Earlier this month, a short animated video was released to the public explaining New Jersey’s quality-blind “last in, first out” (LIFO) teacher layoff statute.  As

NJEA as a Fish?

This image above is from NJEA’s facebook page. Predatory, anyone? Not sure what to make of it:  NJEA  eviscerating charter schools through a moratorium? NJEA

Paulo Freire Charter School Closed By State, Even Though “Our Students Are Outperforming Their Peers”

Earlier this month the New Jersey Department of Education announced the closing of three charter schools in Newark: Newark Prep, Merit Prep, and Paulo Freire

Here’s What’s Wrong With NJEA’s Strategy To Unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week that the New Jersey Education Association just launched a full-scale attack against long-time Democratic leader and Senate President Steve

This is Why A Rich Town Like Princeton Needs a Charter School

(This is a guest post by Princeton Resident Liz Winslow) The following are remarks I’ve prepared for a Princeton Board of Education budget meeting this

News from Camden: All Schools Must Rise and So This One Must Close

This week Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard announced that Charles Sumner Elementary School, which serves 210 K-6 students and employs 57 staff members, will close at

Newark Public Schools: We Are “Hampered” By LIFO Laws that Privilege Adults Over Children.

Defendant admits to the allegations contained in Paragraph 12 of the Complaint in part. Defendants declare that the District Schools are making great strides towards

Jonah and the Whale

Call me Ishmael. Excuse the melodrama but right now my husband and I feel like we’re about to embark on a dark, god-less, soul-crushing journey.

Hey, Princeton and Save Our Schools-NJ: If You’re So Worried About Princeton Charter’s Impact on Segregation, Here’s a Suggestion

Every week I have a piano lesson in Princeton and so I drive six miles down Route 206 from my home in Lawrence, located smack

This Is How My Daughter Celebrated International Women’s Day

Forgive my self-indulgence on this snowy Friday. My younger daughter Emily is a second-year chemistry and physics teacher at City On A Hill Charter School on

Why Do My Neighbors Demonize the Only Public School — Princeton Charter — Where My Special Needs Son Has Thrived?

This is a guest post by Liz Winslow Schartman, a Princeton, New Jersey resident and parent of three children, two of whom have special needs.

“We Will Live By Choice and Not By Chance!”

This credo — “we will live by choice and not by chance”  echoed through Trenton’s Masonic Hall  on Monday morning as two hundred charter school

Save Our Schools-NJ Leaders In a Juvenile State of Mind

Reasonable people can disagree about whether New Jersey should authorize new public charter schools solely in historically-underserved districts or whether families in all towns should

Is It Time to Show A Little Love For Poor Betsy DeVos?

It’s been a Conservative/Tea Party talking point for a while now: get rid of the U.S. Department of Education and.(cuing Pink Floyd here) leave them

After the Women’s March, New Rules, New Energy, and a Renewed Focus on Education

Not long ago, a group of women education bloggers from around the country shared their thoughts on what it means to be, raise and educate

Too Much Fun to Pass By: Planet Princeton Trips Up Public School Choice Opponent Julia Sass Rubin

Planet Princeton, a highly-regarded news platform run by former Star-Ledger journalist Krystal Knapp, is in a Facebook contretemps with Julia Sass Rubin, founder of Save

To Be A Woman In the Age of Trump

Did you wear a pink hat? Stay home? Help a girl make sense? Reactions to the post-inaugural protests were as varied as womankind. Listen in

Letter from Newark Superintendent Cerf Reassures Undocumented Immigrants of Their “Right To Equal Access to Education”

The NJ State Board of Education Chooses Low Risk-Low Reward in New Charter Proposals

Earlier this year Gov. Christie made several modest proposals intended to tweak our twenty-seven year old charter school law. One of those proposals was that