Steve Fulop, mayor of Jersey City and gubernatorial hopeful, endorsed Ras Baraka for mayor of Newark back in February but, according to today’s PolitickerNJ, Fulop’s
At the bottom of yesterday’s Sunday Leftovers is Andy Rotherham’s response to a post by Tim Daly of TNTP. Daly analyzes the recent about-face by
From my column today at WHYY Newsworks: This is not Jersey’s best week. Revelations from Bridgegate, along with the peculiar backroom statecraft that spawned the
From Stephanie Simon at Politico: The board of the New York state teachers union this weekend unanimously withdrew its support for the Common Core standards
Stephen Sawchuk analyzes AFT Prez Randi Weingarten’s flip-flop on the use of student standardized test scores in teacher evaluations. In 2008, in an interview with
The Boston Globe confirmed last week that a last-minute anonymous $480,000 cash drop into mayoral-elect Marty Walsh’s campaign budget came from the American Federation of
In an hour Newark will begin its “National Day of Action to Reclaim Promise of Public Education” when a coterie of teacher union supporters gather
In today’s Wall St. Journal, Lisa Fleisher lists the ways that Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson would have used a $30 million Race to the Top
For a glimpse into Newark’s educational politics, Newark Teacher Union President Joseph Del Grosso barely squeaked out a victory in this week’s contentious battle for
From Joseph Del Grosso, President of the Newark Teachers Union: Dear Senator Rice and Assemblywoman Wagner: I am writing to you about a serious problem