special education

Lakewood Public Schools is Actually a Funding Stream for a Jewish Special Education School

Lakewood Public Schools just asked the state for a “loan” of 10 million dollars to partially bail it out of…

8 years ago

A Picture of Trenton Public Schools. Or, Is This Good Enough for Your Kid?

This is a picture of a young boy receiving physical therapy in an appropriate room in his school..Now click on…

8 years ago

It’s Time For a State Takeover in Lakewood and Here’s Why

Anyone who has been following the Lakewood School Board’s antics over the last decade can only sigh at the most…

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

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

Is It Time to Show A Little Love For Poor Betsy DeVos?

It’s been a Conservative/Tea Party talking point for a while now: get rid of the U.S. Department of Education and.(cuing…

8 years ago

To Be A Woman In the Age of Trump

Did you wear a pink hat? Stay home? Help a girl make sense? Reactions to the post-inaugural protests were as…

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

Is New Jersey’s School Funding Formula Broken?

The answer is an unequivocal “yes,” according to State Auditor Steven Eells, who just released a report detailing substantial flaws…

8 years ago

Nine New Charters Get Preliminary Approval from New Jersey Commissioner

Here's the list:Ailanthus Charter School, Franklin Township, New Brunswick (Somerset County); K-1 progressing to K-4/ 120 to 300 studentCollege Achieve…

9 years ago