I started this blog to vent and share my worries about our city in the middle of a pandemic. As I have continued to reflect,
Three cheers for the Newark Teachers Union. District students were scheduled to return to a hybrid schedule —two days in school a week, three days
(This first appeared at Newark Neighborhood View.) Earlier this month, I questioned the lack of actual learning time our students in Newark were receiving during
(This post first appeared in Newark Neighborhood View.) As you know from my previous blog posts, my daughter attends West Side High School. Over the
Last Tuesday a group of players on the junior varsity basketball team at Newark’s Malcolm Shabazz High School instigated a “violent attack” on their coach,
Last week Newark Superintendent Roger Leon wrote a letter to New Jersey Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet demanding that Repollet, NJ’s sole charter authorizer, not renew
The bottom line is that a larger share of Newark kids are reading and doing math on grade level again this year, and in so
In October of 2012, the Newark Teachers Union signed a contract with then-Superintendent Cami Anderson that was celebrated as a win for teachers and students.
This week I interviewed Kyle Rosenkrans, the executive director of a newly-launched nonprofit called New Jersey Children’s Foundation (NJCF). Rosenkrans, a Jersey native, plans
Last week I wrote a post called“Should Gov. Murphy Take Advice From Newark Teacher Union Prez John Abeigon on Charter Schools? Depends On How You