charter schools

Do Charter Schools Sacrifice Non-Charter Kids?

Dr. Bruce Baker has a good blog post up called “NJ Charter School Data Round-Up” in which he compares demographics…

13 years ago

Charter School Bill “Thoroughly Misguided”

Neil Brown, Chief Academic Officer for RISE, which is designing a charter school for homeless kids and children of incarcerated…

13 years ago

Will the Lame Duck Quack? (Sweeney Interview)

We’re well into the lame duck session of the NJ State Legislature and, while there’s still hope for passage of…

13 years ago

NJ’s “Socially Inequitable” School Choice

The highly-regarded Brookings Institute has a new study out today which grades 13 cities on the “critical role of school…

13 years ago

NJ DOE’s Education Reform Agenda

New Jersey’s application to the Feds for a waiver from the strictures of No Child Left Behind includes a wishlist…

13 years ago

NJ Politics: Ed Reform and the Fate of Speaker Oliver

Great Moran piece today on the splintering of NJ Democrats over issues of race, leadership, public unions, and, yes, education…

13 years ago

Charter School Performance and the NAACP

Great Wall St. Journal piece today on “the tragedy of American politics.” This tragedy is the opposition of civil rights…

13 years ago

42 New Charter Applications

NJ’s DOE received 42 charter school applications this week. (NJ Spotlight, The Record, Philadelphia Inquirer.) Twelve are redo’s – applicants…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

John Mooney in NJ Spotlight describes the Senate Education Committee hearing yesterday on two controversial charter school bills where the…

13 years ago

NJ Charter Corrections

Julia Sass Rubin, a founding member of Save Our Schools-NJ, has an editorial in NJ Spotlight urging the passage of…

13 years ago