U.S. News and World Report issued their high school rankings this week and, as usual, most of New Jersey’s top high schools are county magnet
“The charter school law needs to be rewritten in a thoughtful, comprehensive way. It’s been more than 20 years since the law was passed…I support
Jomayra I. Torres, a first grade teacher at a Jersey City charter school and mother of a charter school student, describes the pedagogical benefits of these alternative
Yesterday the Newark City Council, duly-elected representatives of Newark residents, passed a resolution that opposes Assembly bill 4351, sponsored by Patrick Diegnan and Mila Jasey,
On Saturday the Star-Ledger published a lengthy editorial-cum-analysis on the pushback in New Jersey against high-performing charter schools, specifically KIPP NJ, which runs schools in
Let’s make it official: Chris Christie is toast. As our defamed and diminished governor lurches back towards Jersey, his only quandary is whether or not
Newark mother Melissa Grant (she’s also CEO of a non-profit that provides transitional housing for homeless women) expresses her dismay at Assembly bill A4351, which
NJEA is on a roll. Just over the couple of months New Jersey’s primary teacher union leaders have mounted a $15 million campaign (also see here)
While Jersey City spends $17,000 per student overall, the public school district gives their city’s charter schools only about $8,000 per student. From today’s NJ
Ron Rice Jr., a former Newark Public Schools student, Newark city councilman, and current senior director of government relations at the National Alliance for Public