While the State needs to step up funding and contribute to constructions costs, says Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, The teachers unions need to be part
As Mike Antonucci reported yesterday and Politico reports today, the “top brass” of the National Education Association’s PAC is planning to push through an early
Campbell Brown in today’s NY Post: I believe the reason he can’t articulate a vision for NYC’s public schools and their students is because education
Last week Chris Stewart, native of New Orleans and graduate of the its public school system (“My NOLA education sucked. Badly.) blogged about how “a dedicated
Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf has trimmed the city’s school budget deficit from $40 million to somewhere between $15 million to $20 million, but not without
Today’s Wall St. Journal reports that Newark Public Schools currently has 453 staff members in the pool of “educators without placement.” That’s 15% of Newark
Dominique D. Lee, the founder and chief executive officer of Newark’s BRICK (Building Responsible Intelligent Creative Kids), has a great editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight
John Mooney asks, “All the stir about the state’s plans to relinquish control of Newark’s schools has raised a collateral question: What does all this mean
The New Jersey Department of Education received a bit of flack after its announcement of the first year’s results of using Student Growth Percentiles, as
NJ Spotlight interviewed two superintendents, Tim Purnell of Somerville and Scott McCartney of Egg Harbor. Here’s an excerpt. Q: How was your experience with PARCC?