My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at the state takeover of Camden Public Schools in the context of NJ’s successful Abbott preschools. Two weeks
At last night’s NJ Spotlight Roundtable entitled “Camden Schools and the Future of Urban Education in New Jersey, Camden School Board Member Sean Brown (a
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks is titled “Christie Doesn’t Trust Camden to Pick New Superintendent”: Why did the State take over Camden’s public schools?
One more thought on the Newark civil rights complaint (see below): the parent group in Newark argues that the NJ DOE’s intervention in their failing
My piece today at WHYY Newsworks examines KIPP’s application to the Camden School Board to open several charter schools under the auspices of the Urban
The Star-Ledger Editorial Board has a sharply-edged rebuke to the Christie Administration’s failure to rebuild crumbling schools in cities like Trenton. This scolding was triggered
At last week’s meeting of the NJ State Board of Education, reports the Courier-Post, much attention was focused on the dismal high school graduation rate
The Star-Ledger has up a poll that asks readers, “Are N.J. charter schools better than public schools?” The poll is in the context of the
Woo hoo! The Camden City Board of Education (finally) approved the formation of a charter school campus under the aegis of the Urban Hope Act.
On any given school day, up to 40 percent of teachers in New Jersey’s Camden City Public Schools are absent from their classrooms. Such a