Newark

QOD: KIPP Asks, “How Are N.J. Charter Schools Really Doing?”

KIPP NJ currently has one public charter high school: Newark Collegiate Academy. And that one school, which had just over…

10 years ago

Protesters Follow Cami Anderson to D.C.

The Washington Post reports on yesterday’s events at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Camden Public Schools’ Turnaround And Community Engagement

It starts here:The statistics are grim in Camden City Schools: according to just-released state data, only 21 percent of children…

10 years ago

A Newark Mother of Five Speaks Truth to Power

This week Mark Weber and Julia Sass Rubin published a “data-driven” analysis of New Jersey’s charter schools. The report, paid…

10 years ago

New Newsworks post: Urban Hope Act Opponents Keep Changing Their Rhetoric

It starts here:Charter school opponents were in mourning this week after they failed to derail a set of amendments to…

10 years ago

Urban Hope Act Amendments Approved by Evil N.J. Republi-Crates

My parents (may their memories be a blessing) would have loved Blue Jersey, that unabashedly 60’s-ish website that drapes itself…

10 years ago

New Newsworks column: Newark’s School Reform Battle is Taking a Toll on its Union

 Last week I wrote here about a legal dispute in Camden: twenty-five local residents, backed by several statewide anti-charter groups,…

10 years ago

Braun Crosses the Line

During the Newark mayoral election, Bob Braun, former columnist for the Star-Ledger and currently N.J.’s most prominent anti-reform blogger, was…

10 years ago

QOD: The Irony of the Civil Rights Complaint against Newark Public Schools

The Star Ledger Editorial Board on the "bogus" civil rights complaint filed against Newark Public Schools alleging racial discrimination:Where was…

10 years ago

Newark’s Misdirected Civil Rights Complaint

Both NJ Spotlight and the Star-Ledger have stories today on the federal investigation of a civil rights complaint filed by…

10 years ago