We Are #CharterStrong!
Laura Waters
March 26, 2018
State Street in Trenton was hopping today! With the Senate and Assembly both in session on this bright chilly morning, NRA members gathered around the
This Mother Feels “Blessed” To Have Her Children in a N.J. Charter School: a New Report Tells Us Why
Laura Waters
October 17, 2017
Last week wrote about the New Jersey Charter School Association’s new analysis, “20 Years of New Jersey Charter Schools: A State of the Sector Report,”
Happy 20th Anniversary to New Jersey’s Charter Schools! A New Report Parses the Quality of the Sector
Laura Waters
October 10, 2017
Twenty years ago New Jersey opened its first charter school. To mark the occasion, the New Jersey Charter School Association (NJCSA) released an analysis this
“I was never hungry in Nigeria.”— Three NJ Teachers Risk Everything To Save Their Students
Laura Waters
October 5, 2017
(This is a guest post from my pal and colleague Erika Sanzi. It was originally posted on Erika’s blog, Good School Hunting.) The Nigerian boys arrived in
Five Maxims for Phil Murphy
Laura Waters
September 27, 2017
At a town hall in Montclair this past weekend, Phil Murphy held forth on the four New Jersey school districts — Jersey City, Paterson, Newark,
Here’s Why Charter Schools Aren’t “Laboratories of Innovation”
Laura Waters
October 24, 2016
John Holland Charter School in Paterson just announced its most recent PARCC scores for 6th graders in language arts: 68.4% received scores indicating either proficiency