On Sunday Education Week published an editorial by Julia Sass Rubin (cross-posted at Blue Jersey) on Camden Public Schools and the community-wide efforts to reform
This actually went up Friday but I’ve been offline for a few days. It starts here: If Newark Public Schools is a metric for the
Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer features an editorial by Kevin Riordan that describes how, according to a school board member, “parents in droves are choosing an alternative”
Camden Public Schools’ Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard’s office issued a press release today describing the logic behind the district’s downsizing of staff and announcing a series
New Jersey clings to the student-unfriendly policy of laying off school staff in order of seniority regardless of classroom effectiveness. So, as NJ Spotlight reports
In today’s Courier Post, Arthur Barclay, a graduate of Camden High School and a Camden City Council member, remarks on the “unacceptable reality that has
From today’s NJ Spotlight: NJ Spotlight just reported that next year one out of four Newark public school students will opt to attend a charter
Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard announced last night that the district would lay off 400 staff members in order to close a $75 million budget shortfall.
Here’s the first part of my column today at Newsworks WHYY: Everyone’s talking about the political upheaval in Newark as Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries
Here’s the beginning: “All is flux, nothing stays still,” said Plato, but you’d never know that in Camden. It’s still the worst school system in