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Local Control

Newark Students Deserve Education Champions Who Keep Their Promises

Guest Contributor July 8, 2019

This is a guest post by Tommy Luna who is currently entering his 10th year as an eighth grade math teacher at Newark’s Rise Academy.

Here’s What’s Wrong With Save Our Schools-NJ’s Answers to the DOE Charter School Survey. Or, Let Them Eat Cake.

Laura Waters November 20, 2018

Last week the anti-choice/accountability Princeton-based group called Save Our Schools-New Jersey summoned its Facebook members to fill out the survey that is part of the

Six Ways in Which Lakewood is “Special”; Or, What Happens When Local Control Runs Wild

Laura Waters April 3, 2018

I’ve been thinking about local control lately and the ways in which it contributes, both locally and nationally, to public education inequities. New Jersey, of

Princeton Palace: This is What’s Wrong with Local Control

Laura Waters March 23, 2018

When my husband Dennis and I were getting ready to move from upstate New York to a new home within a reasonable commuting distance to

Cerf: “This Is The Moment. The Biggest Risk as We Go To Local Control Is That Lurking In the Background Is a Real Transactional Mentality.”

Laura Waters February 5, 2018

Last week in The 74 I analyzed the legacy of Chris Cerf’s tenure in New Jersey, both as Commissioner of Education and, more recently, as

My Take on the Betsy DeVos Hearing: Paging Blanche DuBois

Laura Waters January 18, 2017

I’ve tried to be open-minded about Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos. Many people I respect view her as a potentially powerful voice for

N.J. Correlations Between Anti-Vaxxers and Anti-Testers

Laura Waters September 12, 2016

The Star-Ledger reports that a record  9,500 students in New Jersey declined vaccinations in the 2015-16 school year, according to the state health department. That’s

Chris Cerf on Collaboration with Weingarten, Commitment to Local Control, & Not “Charterizing”the District

Laura Waters November 13, 2015

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QOD: How Committed is Chris Cerf to Local Control in Newark?

Laura Waters September 9, 2015

Cerf told the school board and members of the public at the meeting that he was “unalterably, authentically, and completely committed” to local control. He

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