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 charter school funding inequities: “Sadly,
Here’s a parent of a high school student enrolled at Asbury Park High School: “I am so done with that district,” said Phyllis Ling, who
Echoing U.S. Sec’y of Education Arne Duncan’s announcement this week at the Education Writers Association conference, N.J. Ed. Commissioner David Hespe said yesterday, according to
What looks like a victory to some parents may soon backfire in their faces. The anti-PARCC hysteria that’s torn through the Park Slopes of New
New Jersey’s opt-out numbers are in, reports today’s NJ Spotlight. (Here’s additional coverage from the Star Ledger, The Record, and the Wall Street Journal.) Education
Today’s NJ Advance Media article (i.e., Star-Ledger) notes this July marks the 20th anniversary of state control of Newark. Over the last two decades, the
It starts here: Legislators, lobbyists, and Twitter feeds were aflame last week when news surfaced that Pearson, the company that produces PARCC assessments, had hired
Yesterday I wrote a response to Bob Braun’s attack on New Jersey’s Assistant Commissioner Bari Erlichson. Braun did acknowledge errors – not to me (which
It starts here: Last week, the Paterson Charter School of Science and Technology held its annual enrollment lottery. There were 1,437 applicants for 99 openings,
A clip from The Record editorial, but read the whole thing: IT’S WRONG to make a school exam public before students take it. And those who