Last week the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and WNYC hosted a panel that included Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Superintendent Chris Cerf, KIPP’s Joanna Belcher, and
Education Law Center is back on the charter-hating trail again as it determinedly battles impoverished parents in long-failing districts who prefer school choice. Yesterday the
It starts here: Ras Baraka hasn’t just cooled the campaign rhetoric, he’s proven that he knows the value of eclectic and diversified approaches to a
Cerf told the school board and members of the public at the meeting that he was “unalterably, authentically, and completely committed” to local control. He
“My fellow [Newark Teachers Union] members: we are in a war; we are a labor union. We will act like a labor union at war;
Speaking of Newark, earlier this week the New York Times ran a front-page feature on Mayor Ras Baraka that celebrates him as a practical and
Newark students started school today in an atmosphere that appears to be a marked contrast to the agitation and unrest last year. The Record reports
The Newark School Advisory Board, reports the Star-Ledger, has a reasonable request: the state Department of Education should turn around district accountability evaluations, at least
Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf has trimmed the city’s school budget deficit from $40 million to somewhere between $15 million to $20 million, but not without
When I was an elementary school student in Queens, New York City, I attended my local public school, P.S. 115. (NYC schools are often numbered