Back from a hurricane-related hiatus,
Laura Waters
August 30, 2011
I’ll jump right into the new Monmouth University Poll that shows that New Jersey support many of the tenets of education reform. The majority of
Newark and Ed Reform
Laura Waters
August 24, 2011
For an example of the strange alliances begot by education reform, check this out: the hoary American Civil Liberties Union and the Newark-based Secondary Parent
NJ’s Charter School Wars
Laura Waters
August 12, 2011
Princeton International Academy Charter School (PIACS), which has been fighting for approval of its Mandarin-immersion school, has filed suit against Princeton, West Windsor/Plainsboro, and South
Michelle Bachman as Education Reformer
Laura Waters
August 10, 2011
Slightly off-topic: check out Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker profile of GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachman as he probes her fundamentalist Christian belief system. While raising
Quote of the Day
Laura Waters
August 9, 2011
Results released yesterday of test scores in the New York State Assessment Program showed that the most relentlessly attacked charter schools—Eva Moskowitz’s Harlem Success academies—have
Searching For Consistency in the Charter School Wars
Laura Waters
July 26, 2011
Both NJ Spotlight and PolitickerNJ are reporting on Gov. Christie’s speech at the Iowa Education Summit hosted by Republican Gov. Terry Branstad. According to Spotlight,
NJ Charter Schools and the Goodness Gap
Laura Waters
July 22, 2011
John Mooney in NJ Spotlight examines the NJ charter school gap between approval of application and opening of brick-and-mortar school. Earlier this year the DOE
Paging Charter School Fact-Checker, Please
Laura Waters
July 7, 2011
In today’s Star-Ledger Bob Braun allows himself to be led by the nose as he swoons under the thrall of the anti-voucher and anti-charter school
NJ Channels NH in Charter School Laws
Laura Waters
July 5, 2011
There’s two good pieces on charter schools in the papers today: John Mooney in NJ Spotlight looks at the tiny charter school office at the
New Poll Out on Charters
Laura Waters
June 29, 2011
Save Our Schools-NJ and Education Law Center (which issued the press release) are reporting on a new poll from Rutgers Eagleton that shows that “NJ