Everyone’s abuzz over Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s donation of $100 million to Newark Public Schools on the condition that the State turn over control to
From NJ DOE 2008-2009 Data:Team Academy Charter School: 1,800North Star Academy Charter School: 1,775Lady Liberty Charter School: 273Robert Treat Academy: 1,047Marion P. Thomas Charter School:
Five Democrats are sponsoring legislation that would give Rutgers University the authority to approve new charter schools. Right now only the DOE has that authority,
There’s another one of those heart-breaking articles about impoverished school children getting shafted by state budget cuts. This one’s (in The Record) about the NJ
John Mooney at NJ Spotlight profiles the charter school that NJ Education Commissioenr Bret Schundler started, the Golden Door in Jersey City. While it has
The educational bureaucracy cannot bring itself to say the F-word — ‘failing.’So let me say it. These schools are failing the students of our state.
Amidst the ruckus surrounding Gov. Christie’s $819 million cut in state aid to public schools we’re detecting a spike of attention to charter schools, often
We’re sensing an energetic focus in the media on problems endemic to teacher tenure. From today’s New York Times: [I]n the two years since the
Scholastic’s Administrator Magazine includes four views on whether states should raise charter school caps. One administrator queried is Bernard Pierorazio, superintendent of Yonkers Public Schools
Today’s New York Times features a report just out from the Fordham Institute that surveys public schools that serve no poor students, and New Jersey