Newark students started school today in an atmosphere that appears to be a marked contrast to the agitation and unrest last year. The Record reports
The Newark School Advisory Board, reports the Star-Ledger, has a reasonable request: the state Department of Education should turn around district accountability evaluations, at least
Jonathan Alter explains today why “liberals should learn to love charter schools.” His key example is New Orleans, where “over the last decade, graduation rates
Last week Chris Stewart, native of New Orleans and graduate of the its public school system (“My NOLA education sucked. Badly.) blogged about how “a dedicated
Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf has trimmed the city’s school budget deficit from $40 million to somewhere between $15 million to $20 million, but not without
When I was an elementary school student in Queens, New York City, I attended my local public school, P.S. 115. (NYC schools are often numbered
There’s a new kind of fairy tale in the annals of those who denigrate efforts at education reform. It goes something like this: 1) Beleaguered
From today’s Wall St. Journal: Newark’s new schools chief, Chris Cerf, said Wednesday he wants to keep an open door to city leaders.In some cases,
Last week Theresa Luhm, managing director of the Education Law Center proposed a timeline for a transition to local control for Newark Public Schools. But
Today’s Wall St. Journal reports that Newark Public Schools currently has 453 staff members in the pool of “educators without placement.” That’s 15% of Newark