Everyone’s abuzz over Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s donation of $100 million to Newark Public Schools on the condition that the…
From NJ DOE 2008-2009 Data:Team Academy Charter School: 1,800North Star Academy Charter School: 1,775Lady Liberty Charter School: 273Robert Treat Academy:…
Five Democrats are sponsoring legislation that would give Rutgers University the authority to approve new charter schools. Right now only…
There’s another one of those heart-breaking articles about impoverished school children getting shafted by state budget cuts. This one’s (in…
John Mooney at NJ Spotlight profiles the charter school that NJ Education Commissioenr Bret Schundler started, the Golden Door in…
The educational bureaucracy cannot bring itself to say the F-word — ‘failing.’So let me say it. These schools are failing…
Amidst the ruckus surrounding Gov. Christie’s $819 million cut in state aid to public schools we’re detecting a spike of…
We’re sensing an energetic focus in the media on problems endemic to teacher tenure. From today’s New York Times:[I]n the…
Scholastic’s Administrator Magazine includes four views on whether states should raise charter school caps. One administrator queried is Bernard Pierorazio,…
Today's New York Times features a report just out from the Fordham Institute that surveys public schools that serve no…