special education

Why the Current ESEA Draft Will Hurt Vulnerable Children

Last Wednesday the U.S. House of Representatives passed an emasculated rewrite of NCLB called the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA).…

9 years ago

New Newsworks column: Don’t Blame Charters For Trenton Public Schools’ Budget Woes

It starts here:Last Friday Janice Williams, Grievance Chair of the Trenton Education Association, did us all a favor and cut…

10 years ago

New NJ Family column: Advocating for your Special Needs Child

And now for something completely different:My husband and I welcomed our son into the world with the calm conviction of…

10 years ago

Trenton Public Schools Will Lay Off Forty-Seven Child Study Team Members

Trenton Public Schools announced this week that it will lay off 113 teaching positions in order to try to close…

10 years ago

Eva Moskowitz, Union Leaders, and Special Education

Today's  Wall Street Journal features an fiery editorial by Eva Moskowitz, founder of the widely-acclaimed Success Academy Charter Schools, about…

10 years ago

A Newark Mother of Ten Children Explains Why Her Children Need Charter Schools

Shayvonne Anderson , a Newark mother of ten children who range in age from five to eighteen, explains in the…

10 years ago

Trenton Public Schools Addresses Its Special Education Problems

The Trenton Times reports today that district administrators are trying to bring back more students with disabilities into district schools.…

10 years ago

New York’s Lakewood

The Wall Street Journal and the N.Y. Times both report today on the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County,…

10 years ago

Special Education School Files for Bankruptcy

The Star-Ledger reports today that Somerset Hills School has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In response, the Department of…

10 years ago

Special Education in N.J. Gets A Task Force

NJ Spotlight reports today on the complex task awaiting the members of the state Task Force for Improving Special Education…

10 years ago