Logical Corollary
Laura Waters
October 21, 2010
The Star-Ledger Editorial Board worries today that the recent surge in applications for new charter schools – a record 51 at last count — will
Trenton Wreck, Union Dreck
Laura Waters
September 3, 2010
Here’s Trenton School Board member Marcellus Smith’s description of Trenton Central High: “a ninth-to-twelfth-grade disaster.” How bad is it? The freshman class typically numbers 800
Giving it Up for Trenton
Laura Waters
August 23, 2010
At what point does a state government concede defeat regarding a school district’s accountability? Seems like that might be right now in the Trenton Public
How Bad are the Trenton Public Schools?
Laura Waters
September 15, 2009
This bad: last night Superintendent Rodney Lofton gave a preview of this year’s state assessment scores and 68% of third-graders failed both language arts and
Tie-Dyed Trenton
Laura Waters
January 7, 2009
The Trenton Times has published an op-ed by the Vice President of the Trenton School Board, Alexander Brown. It’s both a primer on the history
Down on Skid Row
Laura Waters
August 13, 2008
The Trenton Times reports today on the trial of Priscilla Dawson, a Trenton Central High School principal accused of altering transcripts of 126 students who