I started this blog to vent and share my worries about our city in the middle of a pandemic. As…
Three cheers for the Newark Teachers Union. District students were scheduled to return to a hybrid schedule ---two days in…
(This first appeared at Newark Neighborhood View.) Earlier this month, I questioned the lack of actual learning time our students…
(This post first appeared in Newark Neighborhood View.)As you know from my previous blog posts, my daughter attends West Side…
Last Tuesday a group of players on the junior varsity basketball team at Newark’s Malcolm Shabazz High School instigated a…
Last week Newark Superintendent Roger Leon wrote a letter to New Jersey Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet demanding that Repollet, NJ’s…
The bottom line is that a larger share of Newark kids are reading and doing math on grade level again…
In October of 2012, the Newark Teachers Union signed a contract with then-Superintendent Cami Anderson that was celebrated as a…
This week I interviewed Kyle Rosenkrans, the executive director of a newly-launched nonprofit called New Jersey Children’s Foundation (NJCF). …
Last week I wrote a post called“Should Gov. Murphy Take Advice From Newark Teacher Union Prez John Abeigon on Charter…