Public School Choice

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

This New Jersey Parent Summit Had Parents Fired Up and Ready to Go!

(This is a guest post from Quibila Divine, an education advocate who works tirelessly to ensure that all children are…

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

Is Randi Weingarten Correct that School Choice is A Form of Jim Crow?

Two weeks ago AFT President Randi Weingarten highlighted a new policy brief that showed how school vouchers were used during…

7 years ago

When Friends Say it Best: Black Voices on How the NAACP Has Lost its Way

(This post is by my dear pal and colleague Erika Sanzi. It was originally published on her blog, Good School…

8 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…

8 years ago

A Hope for the Heart of Phil Murphy

The big news story today, of course, is U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell’s failure to summon enough votes to bring to…

8 years ago

Charter Parent: With Adults, It’s All About Money; This Is Supposed To Be About Children

As you can see from the post below, I had an informative visit with Ms. Dreya Teel, her son Jared,…

8 years ago