Trenton

Trenton’s “Forgotten Bunch”: Special Education In-District Students

Yesterday’s Trenton Times featured an article on Trenton Public Schools’ Life Skills program, which, in addition to continuing required adapted…

12 years ago

Trenton Mayor Deposes School Board President

Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, winner of the Star-Ledger’s Knucklehead of the Year Award, is canning the president of the school…

12 years ago

Paging Applicants for Trenton Charter Schools

The Star-Ledger Editorial Board has a sharply-edged rebuke to the Christie Administration’s failure to rebuild crumbling schools in cities like…

12 years ago

What’s the Impact of Drop-Out Rates on High School Proficiency Scores?

Today’s Trenton Times reports on a recent Trenton School Board meeting at which board members puzzled over seemingly conflicting test…

12 years ago

Trenton Update: Trenton High Needs a New Football Coach

Trenton School Board President Rev. Toby Sanders has announced that the district has suspended  Ralphiel Mack, school counselor and head…

12 years ago

Trenton Makes, Mayor Mack Takes (or tries to, anyway)

Local papers are ablaze with the arrest of Trenton Mayor Tony Mack and his brother Ralphiel Mack, who are charged…

12 years ago

Trenton Update

According to today's Times of Trenton, the Facility Advisory Board has plans to renovate Trenton Central High School which, according…

13 years ago

What’s More Important? Local Control or Student Outcomes?

From my post today at WHYY Newsworks,"What's More Important: Local Control or Student Outcomes?"In New Jersey, nothing gets our blood…

13 years ago

Irony Alert: Closing Down Segregated Schools Reinforces Segregation

Education Law Center, standard bearer for poor minority students in New Jersey, issued a press release yesterday charging that Gov.…

13 years ago

Trenton Mayor Tony Mack: Vengence is Mine

When school boards choose superintendents  there’s typically consensus among members. Lengthy sifting of resumes, multiple interviews, collaboration, and a shared…

13 years ago