Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard announced last night that the district would lay off 400 staff members in order to close a $75 million budget shortfall.
Steve Fulop, mayor of Jersey City and gubernatorial hopeful, endorsed Ras Baraka for mayor of Newark back in February but, according to today’s PolitickerNJ, Fulop’s
Money quote: Charter school leaders have seized on [the Mayor’s] key vulnerability. While black and Latino residents overwhelmingly backed Mr. de Blasio in last year’s
This week the National Association of Charter School Authorizers issued a case study of New Jersey’s charter school environment called “Growing Great Schools in New
According to a new Quinnipiac poll released yesterday, 40% of voters want NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to increase the number of charter schools. Only
Here’s the first part of my column today at Newsworks WHYY: Everyone’s talking about the political upheaval in Newark as Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries
In today’s New York Times columnist David Brooks frames the race between mayoral candidates Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries as “regular vs. reformer.” Brooks explains
This past January Bruce Baker ( Rutgers prof. and anti-reform blogger) and Mark Weber (Baker’s Ph.D. student and anti-reform blogger) released a report entitled “An
New Jersey’s charter school movement was born in the late 1990s, with David Hespe – now interim superintendent in Willingboro public schools – as commissioner
I’ve blogged before about charter-haters’ false dichotomy of private sector funding and public sector funding. Here’s the mythology: charter schools rely on private funding and,