Newark

Brooks: In the Newark mayoral race, Baraka Represent the “Old Stability” for Municipal Workers While Jeffries Represents a “Shot at Improvement”

In today’s New York Times columnist David Brooks frames the race between mayoral candidates Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries as…

11 years ago

Newark Public Schools Responds to “Critique” of Charter/Traditional Collaboration Plan

This past January Bruce Baker ( Rutgers prof. and anti-reform blogger) and Mark Weber (Baker’s Ph.D. student and anti-reform blogger)…

11 years ago

Ras Baraka: the Best Thing to Happen to NJ Education Reform

That's the title of my new NJ Spotlight column:It’s painful to say, but New Jersey’s education reform community might benefit…

11 years ago

Ed Week Explains TEAM’s Purchase of Newark’s 18th Av. School

Education Week  explains how KIPP’s TEAM Charter Schools in Newark financed the purchase of Newark’s 18th Avenue School (see my…

11 years ago

No, Newark isn’t Replacing 300 Veteran Teachers with TFA Teachers

Fatimah Burnam Watkins, Executive Director of the NJ chapter of Teach For America, corrects the record  and replies to the…

11 years ago

NJEA President: Fire Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson

Newark Update: After a vote of “no confidence," hostile meetings,  and personal attacks (or at least a reference to her…

11 years ago

Cami Anderson’s Proposal to Use Teacher Quality as the Basis for Lay-offs of 1,000 Newark Teachers

As you all no doubt know by now, Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson has submitted a waiver to the NJ Department…

11 years ago

Newark Mayoral Candidates Square off on Education Reform

PolitickerNJ has been all over the increasingly contentious Newark mayoral contest, which it describes as a “proxy for a potential…

11 years ago

School Reform Contretemps Defines Newark Mayoral Race

If you question whether school reform is the linchpin of the Newark mayoral race, read today's today’s PolitickerNJ. According to…

11 years ago

Newark Sup. Cami Anderson Speaks Out

in an essay in the Huffington Post entitled "Poverty, Politics, Racism, and School Reform":Newark's inconvenient truth: Our poorest neighborhoods, disproportionately…

11 years ago