Public Charter Schools

What is Driving Newark Students’ Academic Growth? Answers Here, Via New Harvard Analysis

Researchers at Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) are releasing a  study today called “Assessing the Impact of…

7 years ago

Happy 20th Anniversary to New Jersey’s Charter Schools! A New Report Parses the Quality of the Sector

Twenty years ago New Jersey opened its first charter school. To mark the occasion, the New Jersey Charter School Association…

7 years ago

When School Choicers Start to Behave Like the Establishment: Charter Schools Protecting Turf Against Another Charter School

This is a guest post by Bob Bowdon, the Executive Director of Choice Media, an education news service, website and smartphone…

7 years ago

Fact Check for Phil Murphy and Sheila Oliver

Last week AFT President Randi Weingarten hosted teachers from Newark, Perth Amboy, North Bergen, and Garfield for a meet-and-greet with…

7 years ago

Chris Cerf Unplugged: Charter Schools, Phil Murphy, NJEA, and Save Our Schools-NJ

In an interview in today's Star-Ledger, Newark Superintendent and former New Jersey Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf discusses the threat…

7 years ago

Can You Cough Up $20K a Year? Welcome To The Top New Jersey “Public” Schools!

  Tuition Rates—2015-2016 RESOLVED, that the Board of Education approve the revised tuition rates for the 2015-2016 school year as…

7 years ago

Phil Murphy Perfects the Pivot

"Pivoting" is an essential political skill when faced with a question you don't want to answer. While I am eager…

7 years ago

Lakewood’s Biggest Fan: Save Our Schools-NJ Supports the Tyranny of the Majority

Occasionally I check Save Our Schools-NJ’s Facebook page to keep tabs on the anti-choice/accountability crowd. Topping the newsfeed yesterday was…

7 years ago

Look What Happens When District and Charter Schools Collaborate

(This is a guest post by Charles Sahm, who is director of education policy at the Manhattan Institute, a think tank…

7 years ago

Just How Irrelevant is the NEA?

This irrelevant: on Tuesday, July 4th, at its annual Delegate Assembly, the National Education Association passed a resolution that would…

7 years ago