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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LILLEY: Is NJ Spotlight Excessively Deferential to Funder NJEA?
Sunlight Policy Center has noticed a disturbing trend with the news website NJ Spotlight. Normally when Sunlight submits an op-ed, the editing process is collaborative
We Don’t Just Need COVID Testing, Our Students Need Academic Testing Too
When I was seven months pregnant with my first baby I developed a condition called preeclampsia. It can be quite serious—once it was a leading
RICCARDS: A Shortlist for Biden’s Next U.S. Education Secretary
Even before President-elect Joe Biden offered his inspiring remarks to the nation this weekend, the social media posts declaring, “bye, Betsy” clearly signaled that the
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Some Rich White School Leaders Need To Get Out More
On Wednesday, working my way back to Central Jersey from the annual convention of the Education Writers Association, I boarded an Amtrak in Boston to
Re: Chris Christie’s and N.J.’s Commitment to Revising the Common Core Because it was “Simply Not Working”
And I’ve got a bridge I can sell you. Just as well: the Common Core was fine to begin with. From today’s Star-Ledger: Nearly a
An Open Letter to New Yorkers, Particularly Those of Color
To our fellow New Yorkers: As the statewide English Language Arts and Math assessments for grades 3 through 8 wrap up, it’s important to remember
A Red Pen for Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s Temper Tantrum over Newark Public Schools’ State Aid
Last week Mayor Baraka issued a statement on Newark Public Schools’ $72 million budget gap, bemoaning the fact that the deficit will raise local property
QOD:”Entrenched Interests Seem More Concerned about Explaining Away Failures of Public Schools” Than Supporting Innovation
Nina Rees in the Wall Street Journal on “the union war on charter school philanthropists”: Charter schools are also closing achievement gaps. At Success Academy schools
Sunday Leftovers
I’m at #ewa (Education Writers Association convention) this week in Boston. Blogging will be light. Feel like chatting? Give me a holler. The New York
New Research from ETS Confirms #OptOutSoWhite
In “Opt Out: An Examination of Issues, buy priligy online https://www.caseymedical.com.au/wp-content/uploads/backup/2022/12/priligy.html ” a peer-reviewed paper that is part of ETS’s Research Report Series, Randy E.
QOD: Derrell Bradford Considers Weingarten’s Absolution of Teachers to Educate Poor Kids
From “Randi Weingarten’s Ugly Endorsement and the War Against Poor Students:” online pharmacy purchase cytotec online generic The facts about kids in the country’s public
What School Systems Can Learn from Hospitals about Outcome-Based Evaluations
NJ Spotlight reports that the quality of New Jersey’s hospitals, once rated 5th in the country, dropped to 22nd place after a non-profit watchdog group
Dear South Jersey Communities United Protesters: Take the Bus Back Out of Camden
Camden City’s Board of Education will meet at 5:30 today in public session for local residents to hear the latest news and share their views.
QOD: Cory Booker on How “Stern Loyalty” to Newark’s Children Demands Educational Transformation
From the new report Better Options, Better Futures: Eight Years of the Newark Charter School Fund: Our stern loyalty toward our children necessitates that we
Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard on the “False Dichotomy” of Fixing Education vs. Fixing Poverty
“There is a tiresome debate in education as far as, ‘Do you fix education to cure poverty or do you cure poverty to cure education?’
A Lesson from Newark: Charter School Parents No Longer Political Weaklings
As the Star-Ledger notes in today’s editorial, last week’s Newark School Advisory Board election was a game-changer, with historically sparse turn-outs — typically about 7%
What’s the Role of School Superintendents in Opt-Out Fever?
Last week I looked at the how differences in state-level leadership, teacher unions, and parent advocacy may have affected New York and New Jersey’s “opt-out
Newark Election Marks “Coming Out Party of the Charter Community”
That’s Lavar Young, Newark City Director for the Black Alliance for Educational Options, who told the Star-Ledger, “I think it was really a coming out
More News Trickling In Re: Newark School Board Election: Top Two Vote-Getters Support School Choice
For many years Newark school board elections were won by power brokers, not parents. For example, last year PolitickerNJ described how Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s
Nine out of Ten of New Jersey’s Top High Schools Are School Choice Magnets
U.S. News and World Report just issued their annual list of America’s top 100 high schools and five of them are in New Jersey. Here’s
PC2E’s Unity Slate Sweeps Newark School Board Election
The Newark School Board election results are in and the winners are Kim Gaddy, Tave Padilla, and Leah Owens. These results are notable in two
QOD: Some Choice Words for Diane Ravitch and Her Opt-Out Minions
Charles Cole at the Huffington Post: I remember graduating being in the top 10 percentile throughout high school. I remember having As and Bs, thinking
Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows, But This is Still Pretty Weird
I just posted about the complexities of Newark school board politics (see below) and for proof of that check out these comments from Leah Owens,
