NJ Department of Education (DOE)

A Fourth-Grader Takes on Jersey City’s Charter School Funding Inequities

Here’s Louis Correro, a fourth-grader at Ethical Community Charter School in Jersey City, in today’s NJ Spotlight piece on N.J.’s…

10 years ago

If Asbury Park Public Schools Were Charters, They’d Be Shut Down Long Ago

Here’s a parent of a high school student enrolled at Asbury Park High School:"I am so done with that district,"…

10 years ago

N.J. Ed. Comm. Hespe: Districts with High Opt-Outs will Be Placed on Corrective Action Plans and Risk State and Federal Funding

Echoing U.S. Sec’y of Education Arne Duncan’s announcement this week at the Education Writers Association conference, N.J. Ed. Commissioner David…

10 years ago

Crunching the PARCC Opt-Out Data

What looks like a victory to some parents may soon backfire in their faces. The anti-PARCC hysteria that's torn through…

10 years ago

New Jersey’s Opt-Out Numbers Are In

New Jersey’s opt-out numbers are in, reports today’s NJ Spotlight.  (Here's additional coverage from the Star Ledger, The Record, and…

10 years ago

Twenty Years of State Control in Newark

Today’s NJ Advance Media article (i.e., Star-Ledger)  notes this July marks the 20th anniversary of state control of Newark.  Over…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: Is Pearson Really Stalking Your Kids’ Twitter Feed?

It starts here:Legislators, lobbyists, and Twitter feeds were aflame last week when news surfaced that Pearson, the company that produces…

10 years ago

Bob the Doxer, Or, Braun’s Underhanded Response to My Response

Yesterday I wrote a response to Bob Braun’s attack on New Jersey’s Assistant Commissioner Bari Erlichson. Braun did acknowledge errors…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: The Charter School Approval Bottleneck at the N.J. D.O.E.

It starts here:Last week, the Paterson Charter School of Science and Technology held its annual enrollment lottery. There were 1,437…

10 years ago

QOD: Controversy Over Pearson “Spying” is “Much Ado about Little”

A clip from  The Record editorial, but read the whole thing:IT'S WRONG to make a school exam public before students take…

10 years ago