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Save Our Schools-NJ Misses the Point on Charter School Authorization

Save Our Schools-NJ posts today that “there is mad rush by charter schools across NJ to grab more market share &…

9 years ago

N.J. PARCC Scores: All Our Kids are Above Average (well, mostly)

The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s PARCC scores yesterday and the results were good and, in fact,…

10 years ago

Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, SOS-NJ, and NJEA Celebrate Christie’s SIgning of Two Anti-Testing Bills

Today's NJ Spotlight reports on Gov. Christie's approval of two Assembly bills, one that bars standardized testing for K-2 students…

10 years ago

Student Outcomes in Turnaround Charter Schools: A Case Study in Newark

Critics of charter schools often claim that the reason for some of  these independent schools’  superior student growth results from…

10 years ago

N.J. PARCC Drill-Down: Reality Hurts and Common Core Works

The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s first PARCC results yesterday afternoon. No surprises here: student proficiency scores…

10 years ago

A Newark Mom Takes on Charter-Hating Adults who are “Crippling the Future of Newark Children”

Last week the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and WNYC hosted a panel online pharmacy buy lipitor online no prescription pharmacy…

10 years ago

Camden Update: Parents are Thrilled By Renaissance Schools; Anti-Choice Lobbies Threaten Action

So, how’s it going at Camden Public Schools, where three new renaissance schools – hybrid district/charter schools run by non-profit…

10 years ago

Sen. Teresa Ruiz Scotches Opt-Out Bill, Despite Pressure from NJEA and Save Our Schools

Props to Senator Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), who withstood pressure from NJEA and Save Our Schools-NJ and stood strong against an…

10 years ago

Paging Gregor Mendel: Untangling Anti-Charter Rhetoric

The Hoboken Board of Education, writes attorney and charter school parent Paul Josephson in yesterday's Star Ledger, is using school…

10 years ago

A Fourth-Grader Takes on Jersey City’s Charter School Funding Inequities

Here’s Louis Correro, a fourth-grader at Ethical Community Charter School in Jersey City, in today’s NJ Spotlight piece on N.J.’s…

10 years ago