Newark students started school today in an atmosphere that appears to be a marked contrast to the agitation and unrest…
The Newark School Advisory Board, reports the Star-Ledger, has a reasonable request: the state Department of Education should turn around…
Jonathan Alter explains today why “liberals should learn to love charter schools.” His key example is New Orleans, where “over…
Last week Chris Stewart, native of New Orleans and graduate of the its public school system (“My NOLA education sucked.…
Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf has trimmed the city’s school budget deficit from $40 million to somewhere between $15 million to…
When I was an elementary school student in Queens, New York City, I attended my local public school, P.S. 115.…
There’s a new kind of fairy tale in the annals of those who denigrate efforts at education reform. It goes…
From today's Wall St. Journal:Newark’s new schools chief, Chris Cerf, said Wednesday he wants to keep an open door to…
Last week Theresa Luhm, managing director of the Education Law Center proposed a timeline for a transition to local control…
Today’s Wall St. Journal reports that Newark Public Schools currently has 453 staff members in the pool of “educators without…