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State Caps Interdistrict School Choice Program; Christie, Cerf, and DOE on the Wrong Side

Here’s a blow for school choice supporters: the Courier Post reports today that the NJ Department of Education has capped…

11 years ago

QOD: New Rutgers’ Study Compares NJ Black Students’ Segregation to Apartheid

A new Rutgers University report on so-called apartheid schools in New Jersey says that 26 percent of black students and…

11 years ago

Bergen County, NJ: Unleash Thy Servants From that Accursed Common Core

Here’s a bit of NJ weirdness: the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders) has issued a resolution “in opposition to…

11 years ago

New Jersey and the Common Core

My column today at NJ Spotlight looks at the NJ's implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the attendant…

11 years ago

New NJ Charter School Bill Gets First Reviews

NJ Spotlight reports that this afternoon the Assembly Education Committee will consider Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan’s charter school proposal, A-4177:In what…

11 years ago

Chris Cerf’s “Perverse Accountability Regime”

In Monday's  blogpost I looked at the NJ’s DOE’s newly-released list of the state’s  57 “Reward Schools,” our highest-performing ones…

12 years ago

Searching for Logic in the Jersey Anti-Charter School Movement

From yesterday’s NJ Spotlight article on NJ’s progress towards updating our charter school laws:“This is exciting,” said Carlos Perez, executive…

12 years ago

GOP Blunders: Disability Rights and Education Reform

Dana Goldstein has a great piece up about the Congressional Republican caucus’s inexplicably stupid blocking of the U.S.’s adoption of…

12 years ago

“Location, Location, Location: The Real Determinant for School Success”

My column today at NJ Spotlight considers new research that "tests the hypothesis, set out in the Abbott rulings, that…

12 years ago

Another Case of Strange Bedfellows

You know that education reform is a peculiar animal when writers from the left-leaning Blue Jersey and a school voucher…

12 years ago