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

Laura Waters March 30, 2017

Earlier this month the New Jersey Department of Education announced the closing of three charter schools in Newark: Newark Prep, Merit Prep, and Paulo Freire

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

Laura Waters March 28, 2017

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

This Is How My Daughter Celebrated International Women’s Day

Laura Waters March 10, 2017

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

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

Laura Waters March 6, 2017

This is a guest post by Liz Winslow Schartman, a Princeton, New Jersey resident and parent of three children, two of whom have special needs.

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

Laura Waters March 1, 2017

This credo — “we will live by choice and not by chance”  echoed through Trenton’s Masonic Hall  on Monday morning as two hundred charter school

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

Laura Waters February 24, 2017

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

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

Laura Waters February 7, 2017

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

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

Laura Waters January 25, 2017

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 worldview. Well, this may be

White Suburban Parents Protest Educational Rights of Black Urban Parents

Laura Waters January 6, 2017

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

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

Laura Waters December 9, 2016

I am typically a fierce critic of Professor Bruce Baker but this week I find myself in the delightful position of praising his scholarship. Not

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