Public School Choice

EXPLAINER: What Is the Charter Schools Program and Why Are Equity Advocates So Angry With Biden?

Today thousands of Americans are gathered in Washington D.C., protesting the Biden Administraton's gutting of a 37-year law called the…

3 years ago

New Jersey, It’s Time To Thank Isaac Abankwa

Isaac Abankwa is a teacher, grade level chair for enrichment, and a teacher coach at KIPP Upper Roseville Academy. According…

3 years ago

Trenton Charter School Leader: Murphy’s Education Department Is Privileging Politics Over Children

Over the last six weeks NJ Education Report has interviewed Trenton and Newark mothers to assess their reactions to the…

3 years ago

EL-MEKKI: We Have an Education Crisis in Our Hands and Curtailing the Charter Schools Program Is No Way to Fix It

Sharif El-Mekki is the founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development. He is a former principal of…

3 years ago

With Friends Like Biden and Murphy, Who Needs Enemies?

Last week Newark Public Schools District reported the alarming news that, based on results from internal assessments, only 6% of…

3 years ago

O’NEILL: Camden Partners–Charter and District–Work Together To Improve Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

Paul O’Neill is the Co-founder and Senior Fellow at the Center for Learner Equity. He comes to this work as…

3 years ago

JAMES: Murphy Has Put Our Children’s Educational Futures at Risk and We’re Fed Up

Most recently, in "Murphy Just Put a Ceiling on my Daughter's Future," I wrote about the developing educational crisis here…

3 years ago

FRANKEL: Phil Murphy’s Fear of Owning What He Says Makes It Hard To Be a Democrat Right Now

Matthew Frankel worked in the Clinton White House, the Office of House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt, and is a veteran…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Is Biden Really Trying To ‘Yank Students Out of Schools Their Parents Chose’? So Murphy.

The Biden Administration just released new rules for applicants to the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP), which is supposed to help…

3 years ago

VIDEO: Newark Parents Wonder, ‘Why Is Gov. Murphy Turning His Back On Us?’

NJ Education Report has been closely following parent and student reactions to Gov. Murphy’s refusal to allow over 70% of…

3 years ago