charter schools

Big Ed Reform News in N.J.: Appellate Court Denies Education Law Center and Save Our Schools-NJ’s Argument that Successful Charter Schools Can’t Expand

The big education reform news in New Jersey yesterday was the release of an Appellate Court ruling in litigation pressed…

10 years ago

Searching for Consensus in N.J.’s Charter Schools Wars

For those of you who follow N.J.’s charter school wars within the circumscribed twitter universe, the last few days have…

10 years ago

N.J. Charter School Students “Demonstrate Growth” for Five Consecutive Years

As New Jersey’s latest standardized test scores come out slowly from the State, the N.J. Charter School Association issued a…

10 years ago

QOD: JerseyCAN Unpacks Politics and Funding behind Charter School Study

Great editorial today from Janelle Duffy over at JerseyCAN on the politics behind the recent “study” of charter school demographics…

10 years ago

A Newark Mother of Five Speaks Truth to Power

This week Mark Weber and Julia Sass Rubin published a “data-driven” analysis of New Jersey’s charter schools. The report, paid…

10 years ago

Paying Teachers $125K; An Experiment in Merit Pay

Leslie Brody at the Wall St. Journal reports on a small New York City charter school, The Equity Project, that…

10 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: N.J.’s Teacher Unions: Implosion, Irrelevance, or Evolution?

It starts here:Last Thursday, the New Jersey Senate Education Committee heard testimony on Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s new charter school bill.…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: N.J.’s Sickly, Restrictive Charter School Law

It starts here:Last week the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) published a new study, "The Health of the…

10 years ago

Guest Editorial: Leader of a Shuttered N.J. Charter School Slams D.O.E.’s Oversight

[Editor's Note: This is an editorial by Lorna Hassel, Founder and Director of Renaissance Regional Leadership Charter School in Pemberton…

10 years ago

QOD: Balanced WSJ Piece on Camden Public Schools’ “Tough Task”

Leslie Brody at the Wall St. Journal:With Camden Mayor Dana Redd’s support, Mr. Rouhanifard, a 33-year-old who fled Iran as…

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