Last week the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and WNYC hosted a panel that included Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Superintendent Chris…
Education Law Center is back on the charter-hating trail again as it determinedly battles impoverished parents in long-failing districts who…
It starts here:Ras Baraka hasn’t just cooled the campaign rhetoric, he’s proven that he knows the value of eclectic and…
Cerf told the school board and members of the public at the meeting that he was "unalterably, authentically, and completely…
“My fellow [Newark Teachers Union] members: we are in a war; we are a labor union. We will act like…
Speaking of Newark, earlier this week the New York Times ran a front-page feature on Mayor Ras Baraka that celebrates…
Newark students started school today in an atmosphere that appears to be a marked contrast to the agitation and unrest…
The Newark School Advisory Board, reports the Star-Ledger, has a reasonable request: the state Department of Education should turn around…
Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf has trimmed the city’s school budget deficit from $40 million to somewhere between $15 million to…
When I was an elementary school student in Queens, New York City, I attended my local public school, P.S. 115.…