At a Newark Advisory School Board meeting earlier this week, Mayor Ras Baraka ended his comments to the Board this…
Yesterday the Newark City Council, duly-elected representatives of Newark residents, passed a resolution that opposes Assembly bill 4351, sponsored by…
On Saturday the Star-Ledger published a lengthy editorial-cum-analysis on the pushback in New Jersey against high-performing charter schools, specifically KIPP…
From Mike Petrelli and Aaron Churchill in the Wall St. Journal:As difficult and disliked as school closures can be, a…
Newark Public Schools released data this week on parent preferences among the district's seventy-two traditional and charter schools. The One…
Today’s NJ Spotlight reports on the second year of One Newark’s universal enrollment system, whereby parents get to rank their…
Today’s NJ Advance Media article (i.e., Star-Ledger) notes this July marks the 20th anniversary of state control of Newark. Over…
From today's NJ Spotlight:Chris Cerf, Christie’s former education commissioner and arguably the chief architect of his reform approach, says great…
"The vast majority of opt-outs are taking place in non-urban, non-disadvantaged districts,” agrees [NJEA Spokesman Steve] Wollmer, “because parents tend…
The new report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) is out from Stanford University and the results show…