Trenton

New Newsworks post: Urban Hope Act Opponents Keep Changing Their Rhetoric

It starts here:Charter school opponents were in mourning this week after they failed to derail a set of amendments to…

10 years ago

Urban Hope Act Amendments Approved by Evil N.J. Republi-Crates

My parents (may their memories be a blessing) would have loved Blue Jersey, that unabashedly 60’s-ish website that drapes itself…

10 years ago

School Board Members: “Frogs at the Bottom of a Deep Well”

Late Sunday night yet another Trenton Board of Education  member resigned, leaving only four members of the nine-member, mayor-appointed group,…

10 years ago

New WHYY Post: What’s Next for Jersey Ed Reform after Newark and Trenton Losses?

Today's column here: Among various New Jersey elections yesterday, Newark and Trenton's mayoral contests pivoted on concerns about the growing…

11 years ago

Trenton Charter School Boasts of Student Gains with Similar Cohorts

The Times of Trenton (sadly diminishing into a local version of the  Star-Ledger as the paper prepares to close its…

11 years ago

Mayoral Elections, School Reform, and Labor Unions

Here's today's WHYY Newsworks column: You know it's silly season when the big N.J. mayoral election news of the day…

11 years ago

Did You Know That Trenton’s Next Mayor Selects the School Board?

Today's WHYY Newsworks column: New Jersey's mayoral elections are in two weeks and the eyes of the education community are…

11 years ago

Trenton’s Next Mayor and the City’s Schools

I covered Saturday's mayoral forum for WHYY Newsworks: At the mayoral forum Saturday morning "Setting Trenton's Education Agenda," sponsored by…

11 years ago

Trenton Superintendent Still in Trenton

It’s been widely reported that Trenton Superintendent Francisco Duran is a finalist for a big promotion: superintendent of the Anne…

11 years ago

New Spotlight Column: Can’t Charters and Tradition Schools Just Get Along?

From today's NJ  Spotlight:NJ Spotlight just reported that next year one out of four Newark public school students will opt…

11 years ago