Public Charter Schools

COMMENTARY: Newark Superintendent Borrows a Slam-Dunk Play from Public Charter Schools

For certain New Jerseyans, a favorite sport is attacking New Jersey's public charter schools. One popular move is to lambaste…

3 years ago

New Study: Newark Public Charter Schools Do Not ‘Push Out’ Students With Disabilities and English Language Learners

One of the most popular soundbites one hears from those who oppose public charter schools is that they push out…

4 years ago

During National Charter School Week, How Are the Children?

After a once-in-a-generation pandemic, academic crisis nationwide, and historic challenges, New Jersey’s public charter schools are celebrating National Charter School…

4 years ago

MYTH BUSTED: NJ Education Groups React to New Boston University Study Proving That Newark Charter Schools Do Not Push Out High-Need Students

Study Showed the Opposite Was True: Students with Special Education, English Language Learners More Likely To Stay At Newark Charter Schools…

4 years ago

‘For Progressives to Step in and Tell Newark Parents What’s Best For Their Own Children Is Plain Offensive’

Tom Moran, head of the Star-Ledger Editorial Board, looks squarely at a lawsuit currently in New Jersey State Supreme Court…

4 years ago

SANTIAGO: How Camden’s LEAP Academy Embraced an ‘Urgent Mindset’ and Successfully Stemmed Student Learning Loss During COVID

Gloria Bonilla-Santiago is the Founder and Board Chair of the LEAP Academy University Charter School in Camden, New Jersey. She is also…

4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Education Law Center’s Magic Elixir of Integration Won’t Help Newark’s Black Families

Today Chalkbeat has a piece dissecting a current lawsuit, pressed by Education Law Center (ELC), that charges Newark’s charter sector…

4 years ago

Charter Schools Do Not Take Money From Other Public Schools, Say Petrilli and Lee

What do Gov. Phil Murphy and Acting Department of Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan have against public charter schools? More specifically,…

4 years ago

Newark Public Schools, Traditional and Charter, Celebrate Their Best-In-The-State Rankings

Here are two press releases, one from Newark Public Schools celebrating that U.S. News & World Report ranked two of…

4 years ago

Camden & Trenton School Leaders Hail Biden’s ‘American Family Plan’ as Transformational for Students Nationwide

Educational experts and public charter school leaders in New Jersey today released statements on President Biden’s proposed American Family Plan…

4 years ago