Public Charter Schools

Paulo Freire Charter School Closed By State, Even Though “Our Students Are Outperforming Their Peers”

Earlier this month the New Jersey Department of Education announced the closing of three charter schools in Newark: Newark Prep,…

8 years ago

This is Why A Rich Town Like Princeton Needs a Charter School

(This is a guest post by Princeton Resident Liz Winslow)The following are remarks I’ve prepared for a Princeton Board of…

8 years ago

This Is How My Daughter Celebrated International Women’s Day

Forgive my self-indulgence on this snowy Friday. My younger daughter Emily is a second-year chemistry and physics teacher at City…

8 years ago

Why Do My Neighbors Demonize the Only Public School — Princeton Charter — Where My Special Needs Son Has Thrived?

This is a guest post by Liz Winslow Schartman, a Princeton, New Jersey resident and parent of three children, two…

8 years ago

“We Will Live By Choice and Not By Chance!”

This credo -- "we will live by choice and not by chance"  echoed through Trenton’s Masonic Hall  on Monday morning…

8 years ago

Save Our Schools-NJ Leaders In a Juvenile State of Mind

Reasonable people can disagree about whether New Jersey should authorize new public charter schools solely in historically-underserved districts or whether…

8 years ago

The NJ State Board of Education Chooses Low Risk-Low Reward in New Charter Proposals

Earlier this year Gov. Christie made several modest proposals intended to tweak our twenty-seven year old charter school law. One…

8 years ago

Let’s Avoid “Alternative Facts” When We Talk About School Choice and Charter Schools

Over the weekend, Americans were introduced to a new meme: “alternative facts,” Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway’s awkward rationalization of the president’s reality-challenged…

8 years ago

White Suburban Parents Protest Educational Rights of Black Urban Parents

Look at this picture. What do you see? A group of (almost all) white suburban people in front of the…

8 years ago

Newsflash: Bruce Baker Analyzes Charter School Expansion and I’m Impressed

I am typically a fierce critic of Professor Bruce Baker but this week I find myself in the delightful position…

8 years ago